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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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"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."

"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."

"We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone."

"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."

"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."

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

"If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall."

"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."

"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."
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"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."


"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."


"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."


"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."


"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"


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


"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."
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