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

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

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

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 function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.

Government should be concerned with anti-social conduct, not with utterances.