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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."

"A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena."

"I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night."

"Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court."

"If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall."

"In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked."

"Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them."

"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."
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"Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century."
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