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Hugo Black
American
Judge
Born:
Feb 27
,
1886
Died:
Sep 25
,
1971
Constitution
Free
Free Press
Free Speech
Government
People
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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.
Hugo Black
Government
People
Protection
Free
Free Press
Gave
Fathers
Press
Secrets
Must
Inform
Bare
Founding
Founding Fathers
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.
Hugo Black
Change
Constitution
Enemy
Tyranny
Free
Free Speech
Revolution
Framers
Knew
Also
Deadliest
Always
Friend
Speech
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo Black
Government
Religion
Destroy
Degrade
Tends
Union
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.
Hugo Black
Constitution
Political
Wind
Wave
Our
Written
New
Judges
Blown
Sands
Successive
Washed
Each
Away
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
Hugo Black
History
Post
Other
Fathers
Saw
Purpose
Clearly
New
Courageous
Condemnation
Times
York
Reporting
New York
New York Times
Newspapers
Far
Should
View
Washington
Washington Post
Deserving
Founding
Founding Fathers
Serving
The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
Hugo Black
Constitutional
Layman
He
Unconstitutional
Like
Likes
Which
View
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo Black
Me
Man
Sports
Doctor
Wait
Advice
Carefully
Could
Tennis
Reached
Until
Advised
His
Again
Heeded
Play
Hardly
Start
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.
Hugo Black
Happiness
Life
First
Lasting
Aiming
Way
Pleasure
Paradox
Seek
Something
Purpose
Outside
Self
Miss
Condition
Very
Should
Full
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.
Hugo Black
War
Government
Hoped
Would
Nobly
Revealing
Led
Trusted
Did
Precisely
Which
Newspapers
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Workings
Founders
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