"Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks."

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Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.

— Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.