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![[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/805/804613/804613.webp "[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many Picture Quote #1")
![The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. [Progressive] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/743/742598/742598.webp "The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. [Progressive] Picture Quote #1")
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Text Quotes
The United States has a system of taxation by confession (Hugo Black Quotes)
[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many (Hugo Black Quotes)
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do (Hugo Black Quotes)
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind (Hugo Black Quotes)
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people (Hugo Black Quotes)
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. [Progressive] (Hugo Black Quotes)
We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person ‘to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion.’ Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs (Hugo Black Quotes)
Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds (Hugo Black Quotes)
I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says (Hugo Black Quotes)
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny (Hugo Black Quotes)
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. (Hugo Black Quotes)
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. (Hugo Black Quotes)
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. (Hugo Black Quotes)
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. (Hugo Black Quotes)
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance. (Hugo Black Quotes)
The Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its ‘unhallowed perversion’ by a civil magistrate. (Hugo Black Quotes)
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. (Hugo Black Quotes)
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press (Hugo Black Quotes)
Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government (Hugo Black Quotes)
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious (Hugo Black Quotes)
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion (Hugo Black Quotes)
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40's shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again (Hugo Black Quotes)
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again (Hugo Black Quotes)
Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not (Hugo Black Quotes)
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 (Hugo Black Quotes)
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain (Hugo Black Quotes)
The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad (Hugo Black Quotes)
No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion (Hugo Black Quotes)
Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government (Hugo Black Quotes)
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self (Hugo Black Quotes)
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