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"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
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"This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one."
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"The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States."
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"The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it."
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"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
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"They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened."
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"That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution."
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"I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence."
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"It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution."
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"There is a higher law than the Constitution."
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"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."
Force
"To some lawyers, all facts are created equal."
Fact
"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
May
"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."
History
"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage."
Life
"The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort."
Effort
"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."
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"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."
Strength
"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep."
Gratitude
"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
Constitution
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