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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

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An individual's associational rights under the First Amendment are no less basic than the right to travel.

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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

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The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

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The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

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The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.

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Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

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We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

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A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

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