Ref. the quote originally presented here: when I read it, I chuckled, "He's finally admitting to his priority-order !"

My teenaged son ( years ago ) saw a bumper sticker that read, "CHALLENGE AUTHORITY!" His response; "Sez who ?"

I think Mr. Ingersoll would have been proud. I still laugh when we think of it.

Mike -- books of the late 40's -- ALL gone ? Book-burners !

... indeed do we have ANY commission "from God" ?

...which is to say, "innocent until proven guilty" -- and I don't know the source.

"...the only moral action." ONLY ?

I wish I felt as most do here that it's an easy situation to solve. My most recent and simplistic observation is, Hamas ( it's far too easy to disregard their part ) fires 1000 rockets, then counts 1000 deaths: a terribly stupid way to wage war, except for the world's sympathetic response at war deaths. Solutions, anyone ? I disagree with what I think I correctly recall the Nazis calling The Final Solution, whether Jew or Palestinian.

Justice Clark was perfectly clear to those who made sense of what he said. I FINALLY decided he meant to say that, as with individuals or businesses, the freedom of speech or press applies: just as much, but no more than, to religion as well as to secular, individuals or groups.
But as my dad used to say, after expressing an opinion ... "but I COULD be wrong !" ( Most of us ( yep, me too ) daren't say that; opens too wide our egos. )

All too esoteric for my "pea brain." Isn't there somewhere a phrase about "on the head of a pin" ? That's what I feel like after we "liberty"-loving folks ( whatever THAT means ) try to tell others what "liberty" REALLY means. Say !, maybe that's it -- liberty is like "love," as one pointed out -- or "beauty" which "is in the eye of the beholder." Some things cannot be confined by man's description -- as one of the commenters stated, it "IS," ,,, but .. ahem, please feel at liberty to decline or disagree with my comment.

Marginally, perhaps, but reminds me of Cassius to Brutus -- The fault lies not in our stars but within ourselves..."

Worth Googling and other Jefferson sources. Apparently a common "saying" in those days ?

Mr. Justice Douglas asks us to believe that words mean what they say and have meaning ? What a concept !

HEAR, HEAR ! ( Or is it, HERE, HERE ! ? )

... or at least, should do so.