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"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
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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."

"He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications."

"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."

"My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity."

"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."

"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."

"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."

"We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination."
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"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."

"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
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