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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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"That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow."
"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."
"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."
"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."
"Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum."
"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."
"Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution."
"The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President."
"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."
"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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"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."
"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."
"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."
"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."
"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."
"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."
"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."
"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."
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