"Today, every president is the target of criticism and mockery. It is inconceivable that even the most caustic critic …"

"Americans should scent danger when a government tries to stop a newspaper from disclosing the origins of an unpopular…"

"It took more than a century for (our) courts to begin protecting speakers and publishers from official repression in …"

"The law of the American Constitution allows suppression only when violence or violation of law are intended by speake…"

"Nowadays, it is hard to imagine any revelation so intimate that it would offend the public's sense of decency."

"There will always be authorities who try to make their own lives more comfortable by suppressing critical comment."

"I am convinced that the fundamental American commitment to free speech, disturbing speech, is no longer in doubt."

"The meaning of the First Amendment has been, and will be, shaped by each American generation: by judges, political le…"

"The most surprising and provocative occasions are those when Lewis himself departs from civil libertarian free speech…"

"Ours is the most outspoken society on Earth. Americans are freer to think what we will and say what we think than any…"