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From The Very Beginning, Our State And National Constitutions And Laws Have Laid Great Emphasis On Procedural And Substantive Safeguards Designed To Assure Fair Trials Before Impartial Tribunals In Which Every Defendant Stands Equal Before The Law. This Noble Ideal Cannot Be Realized If The Poor Man Charged With Crime Has To Face His Accusers Without A Lawyer To Assist Him.

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.

A Union Of Government And Religion Tends To Destroy Government And To Degrade Religion.

It Is My Belief That There Are "absolutes" In Our Bill Of Rights, And That They Were Put There On Purpose By Men Who Knew What Words Meant And Meant Their Prohibitions To Be "absolutes."

I Do Not Believe That It Can Be Too Often Repeated That The Freedoms Of Speech, Press, Petition And Assembly Guaranteed By The First Amendment Must Be Accorded To The Ideas We Hate Or Sooner Or Later They Will Be Denied To The Ideas We Cherish. The First Banning Of An Association Because It Advocates Hated Ideas - Whether That Association Be Called A Political Party Or Not - Marks A Fateful Moment In The History Of A Free Country.