I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

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

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

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.

Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.