Quote by Hugo Black
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. – Hugo Black

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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. – Hugo Black

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Change
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldnt play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. – Hugo Black

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Sports
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. – Hugo Black

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Happiness
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Freedom
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. – Corazon Aquino

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Freedom

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other. – Chris Patten

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Freedom

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus

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Freedom

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. – Lech Walesa

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Freedom

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And Im afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. – Elton John

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Age

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Hang in There

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. – John Maynard Keynes

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Government

The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. – Garrett Hardin

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Religion