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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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"There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"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."

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

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

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