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"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"
"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."
"To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity."
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"In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge."
"I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing."
"An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement."
"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."
"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
"The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left."
"When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions."
"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."
"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."
"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."
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