"An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment."

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Source : NewYork Times Co. v. Sullivan (concurring opinion) (1964)

Hugo Black

#Guarantees Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Civil Rights Quotes

“Everyone has their own story and thatâ€™s something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesnâ€™t make it right for you. Itâ€™s cooler to be yourself.”
“Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves.”

Source : "The German-Polish Frontier" by Walter M. Drzewieniecki, (p. 71), 1959.
“Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.”
“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
“To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!”

Source : Jaroslav Pelikan (2006). “Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures”, p.229, Penguin
“Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.”
“Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.”
“You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.”

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