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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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"Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846."
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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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"I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it."
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"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."
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"From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law."
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"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."
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"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
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"This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish."
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"I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag."
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"And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."
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"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
"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."
Answers
"Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy."
Controversy
"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
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"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
Constitution
"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep."
Gratitude
"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
"It simply is not true that war never settles anything."
War
"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."
Policy
"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."
Success
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