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The United States has a system of taxation by confession

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance.

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

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

Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.

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

Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

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

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

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.

[H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.

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

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

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