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For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

During war, the laws are silent.

In time of war the laws are silent.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.