When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.

It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.