The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of religion, the inevitable result had been that it had incurred the hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

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

Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

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.

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

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.