"[There exists a] profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, ro…"

"[In] democratic societies … the state can't control behavior by force. It can to some extent, but it's much more limi…"

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow …"

"I never knew any debatable point not maintained on both sides by unanswerable arguments..."

"For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Gresham's law t…"

"An entire generation is experiencing a crisis of free speech, of authenticity, and of honesty to oneself and one’s va…"

"I yield to no man—if I may borrow that majestic parliamentary phrase—I yield to no man in my belief in the principle …"

"Ignorantia non est argumentum."

"In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the …"

"To me "bipartisan foreign policy" means a mutual effort, under our indispensable two-Party system, to unite our offic…"