A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

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

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.

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.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.