No Office In The Land Is More

It Is Important Not To Give The Appearance Of A Predisposed Mind. And It Is More Important Not To Let The Mind Become Predisposed.

Without A Free Press There Can Be No Free Society. That Is Axiomatic. However, Freedom Of The Press Is Not An End In Itself But A Means To The End Of A Free Society. The Scope And Nature Of The Constitutional Guarantee Of The Freedom Of The Press Are To Be Viewed And Applied In That Light.

Ambiguity Lurks In Generality, And May Thus Become An Instrument Of Severity.

We Have Enjoyed So Much Freedom For So Long That We Are Perhaps In Danger Of Forgetting How Much Blood It Cost To Establish The Bill Of Rights.

Freedom Of Expression Is The Well-spring Of Our Civilization... The History Of Civilization Is In Considerable Measure The Displacement Of Error Which Once Held Sway As Official Truth By Beliefs Which In Turn Have Yielded To Other Truths. Therefore The Liberty Of Man To Search For Truth Ought Not To Be Fettered, No Matter What Orthodoxies He May Challenge.