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.

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession