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that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials
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The general proposition that freedom of expression upon public questions is secured by the First Amendment has long been settled by our decisions.
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a punishment must not by its severity be degrading to human dignity
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment , it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.
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We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.