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"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
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"This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one."
"A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that."
"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."
"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
"The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President."
"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."
"There is a higher law than the Constitution."
"If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."
"I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be."
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"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion."
"The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights."
"In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property."
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."
"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."
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