The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.