Our society is built on the paramount value of human freedom, which means that no one owes any debts to any others except those which he voluntarily assumes.

Holmes and Brandeis, and other Justices after them, persuaded the country - and the Court - that freedom of expression was a paramount constitutional value.

The paramount value recognized by engineers is the safety and welfare of the public.

Respect for custom, as might be expected, has been the paramount value in a troupe whose existence springs from folk customs.

While officials at the Pentagon or the Central Intelligence Agency see secrecy as a paramount value, diplomats embrace openness and depend on foreign visitors.

The documentary says they do; obedience, discipline and sexual restraint seem to be paramount values.

Colleges, especially, are places where the free exchange of ideas must be the paramount value.

In my view, the paramount value that our criminal justice system places on protecting an innocent defendant should outweigh a deceased client's interest in preserving confidences.

Mr. Clinton said that the American system was based on a delicate balance between personal liberty and central authority, with liberty the paramount value.

Islamic parties speak the language of justice, the paramount political value to most Muslims.