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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
Explore more quotes by Harry A. Blackmun
"In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently."
"What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations."
"The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud."
"The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies."
"Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong."
"The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy."
"Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently."
"It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority."
"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."
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