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| 'Regulations designed to foster the health of a woman seeking an abortion are valid if they do not constitute an undue burden.' | |
| 'Three generations of imbeciles are enough.' | |
| 'Litigation of questions that relate entirely to the unofficial conduct of the...President poses no perceptible risk of misallocation of either judicial power or executive power.' | |
| 'I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within [hard core pornography], but I know it when I see it.' | |
| 'Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to make people smile.' | |
| There are certain...classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include...'fighting' words.' | |
| 'Section 441b’s prohibition on corporate independent expenditures is thus a ban on speech.' | |
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| 'Criticism of [government officials'] conduct does not lose its constitutional protection merely because it is effective criticism, and hence diminishes their official reputations. | |
| 'The State has a substantial interest that legitimately may be served by [an] admissions program involving the competitive consideration of race and ethnic origin.' | |
| 'It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.' | |
| 'The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.' | |
| 'We conclude that the legitimate needs of the judicial process may outweigh Presidential privilege.' | |
| 'All legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group are immediately suspect....Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify...such restrictions.' | |
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