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Since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgement of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

— George Sutherland Grosjean v. American Press Co (1936)

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A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

The liberty of the individual to do as he pleases, even in innocent matters, is not absolute. It must frequently yield to the common good.

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

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