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Words to Live By

“The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.”
- Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

“The public library is the most dangerous place in town.”
- John Ciardi, poet

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
- Benjamin Franklin, scientist and statesman
The First Amendement to the U.S. Constitution
“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.”

- William Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
A Marketplace of Ideas:
First Amendment Bastions
First Amendment Battlefields
The First Amendment