Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he … - Hugo Black

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

Hugo Black

Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. 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.

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The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

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The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.

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Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

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The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law. . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. " I read "no law. . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.

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There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

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