The Bill Of Rights Was Not Written

Every Effort To Confine Americanism To A Single Pattern, To Constrain It To A Single Formula, Is Disloyalty To Everything That Is Valid In Americanism.

The Decision For Complete Religious Freedom And For Separation Of Church And State In The Eyes Of The Rest Of The World Was Perhaps The Most Important Decision Reached In The New World. Everywhere In The Western World Of The 18th Century, Church And State Were One; And Everywhere The State Maintained An Established Church And Tried To Force Conformity To Its Dogma.

The Justification And The Purpose Of Freedom Of Speech Is Not To Indulge Those Who Want To Speak Their Minds. It Is To Prevent Error And Discover Truth. There May Be Other Ways Of Detecting Error And Discovering Truth Than That Of Free Discussion, But So Far We Have Not Found Them.

History Is Organized Memory, And The Organization Is All Important!

The Bill Of Rights Was Not Written To Protect Governments From Trouble. It Was Written Precisely To Give The People The Constitutional Means To Cause Trouble For Governments They No Longer Trusted.