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Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people.

neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with the equal protection principle when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature -- equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again

Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,--the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire.

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.

You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.

It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power.

The general proposition that freedom of expression upon public questions is secured by the First Amendment has long been settled by our decisions.

Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.

The vitality of civil and political institutions in our society depends on free discussion.

The right to speak freely and to promote diversity of ideas and programs is therefore one of the chief distinctions that sets us apart from totalitarian regimes.

Free speech has occupied an exalted position because of the high service it has given our society.

One's beliefs have long been thought to be sanctuaries which government could not invade.

As indispensable to the preservation of our system of self-government, the independence of the representatives of the States and the people is guaranteed by the Constitution, and they owe no responsibility to any human power but their constituents.