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

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

The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

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

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 very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.