It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong.

Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.

Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.

The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.