An Unconditional Right To Say

There Can Be No Equal Justice Where The Kind Of Trial A Man Gets Depends On The Amount Of Money He Has.

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.

It Would Degrade Our Country And Our Judicial System To Permit Our Courts To Be Bullied, Insulted And Humiliated And The Orderly Progress Thwarted And Obstructed By Defendants Brought Before Them Charged With Crimes.

Compelling A Man By Law To Pay His Money To Elect Candidates Or Advocate Law Or Doctrines He Is Against Differs Only In Degree, If At All, From Compelling Him By Law To Speak For A Candidate, A Party, Or A Cause He Is Against. The Very Reason For The First Amendment Is To Make The People Of This Country Free To Think, Speak, Write And Worship As They Wish, Not As The Government Commands.

The First Amendment Has Erected A Wall Between Church And State. That Wall Must Be Kept High And Impregnable. We Could Not Approve The Slightest Breach.