“The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them…The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say…”

— Harlan F. Stone

Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586, 604 (1940).

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United States federal judge 1872–1946

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