A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.

Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.

These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.