“At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.”
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
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