The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.