Anthony Kennedy (1936) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) (Opinion of the Court).
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.”
Writing for the court, Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969)
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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Taylor (26 November 1798), shortened in The Money Masters to "I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution … taking from the federal government their power of borrowing".
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Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist
Revised edition, 1985. p. 175.
Ceremonial Chemistry (1974)
John Marshall (1755–1835) fourth Chief Justice of the United States
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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Context: [.. ] it can scarcely be necessary to say that the existence of State banks can have no possible influence on the question. No trace is to be found in the Constitution of an intention to create a dependence of the Government of the Union on those of the States, for the execution of the great powers assigned to it. Its means are adequate to its ends, and on those means alone was it expected to rely for the accomplishment of its ends. To impose on it the necessity of resorting to means which it cannot control, which another Government may furnish or withhold, would render its course precarious, the result of its measures uncertain, and create a dependence on other Governments which might disappoint its most important designs, and is incompatible with the language of the Constitution. But were it otherwise, the choice of means implies a right to choose a national bank in preference to State banks, and Congress alone can make the election. After the most deliberate consideration, it is the unanimous and decided opinion of this Court that the act to incorporate the Bank of the United States is a law made in pursuance of the Constitution, and is a part of the supreme law of the land.
“It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence.”
J. L. Austin (1911–1960) English philosopher
Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 56.
Anthony Kennedy (1936) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002) (Opinion of the Court).