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12 quotes by Hugo Black

Hugo Lafayette Black (February 27, 1886 – September 25, 1971) was an American politician and jurist. A member of the Democratic Party, Black represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1937, and served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971. Black was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 63 to 16. (6 Democratic...
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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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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... →

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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... →

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In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted... →

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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... →

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In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be... →

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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... →

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

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

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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

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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... →

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