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American Jurist, Lawyer and Politician best known for his absolutist belief in the Bill of Rights as a guarant, 1886-1971

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“The First Amendment was added to the Constitution to stand as a guarantee that neither the power nor the prestige of the Federal Government would be used to control, support or influence the kinds of prayer the American people can say - that the peop”

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“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.”

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“A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.”

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“Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.”

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“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.”

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“The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.”

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“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.”

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“The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have [to] bare the secrets of government and inform the people.”

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