The Framers of the Constitu... by Hugo Black, an American Judge

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“The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”

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Name: Hugo Black

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Feb 27, 1886

Date of Death: Sep 25, 1971

Profession: Judge

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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

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A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

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Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

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