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"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
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"There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon."

"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."

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


"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."


"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."


"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."


"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"


"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."


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