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"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
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"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

"Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
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"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."

"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."

"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."

"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."

"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."

"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."

"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."
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