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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion
Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.
The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.
with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact