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"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."

"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."

"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."

"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."

"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."

"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."

"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."
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