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The Right To Be Let Alone Is Indeed The Beginning Of All Freedom.

To Be Whole And Harmonious, Man Must Also Know The Music Of The Beaches And The Woods. He Must Find The Thing Of Which He Is Only An Infinitesimal Part And Nurture It And Love It, If He Is To Live.

A Function Of Free Speech Under Our System Of Government Is To Invite Dispute. It May Indeed Best Serve Its High Purpose When It Invites A Condition Of Unrest, Creates Dissatisfaction With Conditions As They Are, Or Even Stirs People To Anger. Speech Is Often Provocative And Challenging. It May Strike At Prejudices And Preconceptions And Have Profound Unsettling Effects As It Passes For Acceptance Of An Idea.

This Freedom Of Movement Is The Very Essence Of Our Free Society, Setting Us Apart. Like The Right Of Assembly And The Right Of Association, It Often Makes All Other Rights Meaningful-knowing, Studying, Arguing, Exploring, Conversing, Observing And Even Thinking. Once The Right To Travel Is Curtailed, All Other Rights Suffer, Just As When Curfew Or Home Detention Is Placed On A Person.

Christianity Has Sufficient Inner Strength To Survive And Flourish On Its Own. It Does Not Need State Subsidies, Nor State Privileges, Nor State Prestige. The More It Obtains State Support The Greater It Curtails Human Freedom.