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"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
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"He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners."

"There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon."

"Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace."

"It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace."

"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
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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."


"The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized."


"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."


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


"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."


"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."
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