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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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"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
"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
"Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man."
Age
"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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"To some lawyers, all facts are created equal."
Fact
"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."
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"The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort."
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"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."
History
"I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough."
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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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"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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"A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that."
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"That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow."
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"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."
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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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"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
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"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
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"I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case."
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"As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."
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"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
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