Hugo Black

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless weak outnumbered or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think speak write and worship as they wish not as the Government commands.

When I was 40 my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldnt play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait to reach 50 to start again.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor discuss advocate or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind that brings new political administrations into temporary power.