Freedom of speech

And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Le...

Vital as is the necessity in time of war not to hamper acts of the executive in the defense of the nation and in the prosecution of the war, of equal and perhaps greater importa...

In this case sentences of twenty years imprisonment have been imposed for the publishing of two leaflets that I believe the defendants had as much right to publish as the Govern...

If there be any among us who wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion ma...

That imprisonment should continue an hour longer than it ought by law, or that there should be constraint of limb or voice that the law does not allow, is ever a consideration t...

It is one of the unfortunate results of governmental action against freedom of speech that the persons who retain sufficient courage to come into conflict with the law are often...

The _Liberty_ is likely to survive longer than anything else that I have written, because it is a kind of philosophic textbook of a single truth, which the changes progressively...

_Florida_ Laws, 1917, c. 7392, No. 134 (persuading or publicly attempting to persuade a person not to enlist in war or when “our foreign relations tend to indicate an impending...

State _v._ Boyd, 86 N. J. L. 75; 87 N. J. L. 328 (1915). State _v._ Quinlan, 86 N. J. L. 120; 87 N. J. L. 333 (1915; with dissenting opinion). State _v._ Scott, 86 N. J. L. 133...