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At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.

— Anthony Kennedy

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The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times.

Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.

Only a weak society needs government protection or intervention before it pursues its resolve to preserve the truth. Truth needs neither handcuffs nor a badge for its vindication.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

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