Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “I cannot assent to the view, if it be meant that the legislature may impair or abridge the rights of a free press and of free speech whenever it thinks that the public welfare requires that it be done. The public welfare cannot override constitutional privilege.” ~ John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), US Supreme Court Justice, 1877–1911Source: Patterson v. Colorado (1907)