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"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"

"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."

"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."

"Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about."

"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."

"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."

"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."

"If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility."

"A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable."

"You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out."

"The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will."

"In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along."

"If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless."
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