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All Ideas Having Even The Slightest Redeeming Social Importance - Unorthodox Ideas, Controversial Ideas, Even Ideas Hateful To The Prevailing Climate Of Opinion, Have The Full Protection Of The Guarantees [of The First Amendment].

Debate On Public Issues Should Be Uninhibited, Robust And Wide-open And That...may Well Include Vehement, Caustic, And Sometimes Unpleasantly Sharp Attacks On Government And Public Officials.

At Bottom, The Battle Has Been Waged On Moral Grounds. The Country Has Debated Whether A Society For Which The Dignity Of The Individual Is The Supreme Value Can, Without A Fundamental Inconsistency, Follow The Practice Of Deliberately Putting One Of Its Members To Death.

If Our Free Society Is To Endure, Those Who Govern Must Recognize Human Dignity And Accept The Enforcement Of Constitutional Limitations On Their Power Conceived By The Framers . . . . Such Recognition Will Not Come From A Technical Understanding Of The Organs Of Government, Or The New Forms Of Wealth They Administer. It Requires Something Different, Something Deeper-a Personal Confrontation With The Wellsprings Of Our Society.

Punishing Desecration Of The Flag Dilutes The Very Freedom That Makes This Emblem So Revered.