The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
Hugo BlackHistory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.
Hugo Black[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.
Hugo Black