"Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation."

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Source : Speech at the University of Oregon, Nashville, 2004.

Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

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“No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal environment in which to live. From a functional viewpoint, the courtyard of the Rowhouse in Sumiyoshi forces the inhabitant to endure the occasional hardships. At the same time, however, the open courtyard is capable of becoming the house's vital organ, introducing the everyday life and assimilating precious stimuli such as changes in nature.”
“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”
“I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.”
“Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.”
“Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.”
“A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.”
“The harder we played, the behinder we got.”
“Donald Trump has been practicing the chords of reality politics for 11 years doing reality television. And so he's clearly the frontrunner and he is clearly dominating. But I still believe in some old rules.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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