Hugo Black Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.