"If you had to pick one freedom
that is the most essential
to the functioning of a democracy,
it has to be freedom of speech.
Because democracy means persuading one another
and then, ultimately, voting...
You can't run such a system
if there is a muzzling of one point of view"
Conservative Supreme Court
Justice Antonin Scalia
Notably Scalia Defended Flag Burning
Even Though It Was Personally Anathema To Him