Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.

We must dissent from the fear.

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.