Related:

• Tucker v. Texas, 326 U.S. 517 (1946), in which a statute punishing door-to-door distribution of literature was held invalid as an abridgment of freedom of the press.
  -- Supreme Court decision quoted by Mike Godwin in comp.org.eff.talk...
• The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals.
  It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets......
• Freedom of the press is for those who happen to own one.
• The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
  -- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Dougla...
• The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.
  -- Mike Godwin, staff counsel, EFF...
• Attorney General Edwin Meese III explained why the Supreme Court's Miranda decision (holding that subjects have a right to remain silent and have a lawyer present during questioning) is unnecessary
  You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime....
• Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. -- A. J. Liebling
• Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed?
  Why should a government which is doing what it believes is right allow itself to be criticized?...