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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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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
"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."
"The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it."
"And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."
"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 are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000."
"Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves."
"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
"The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights."
"The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it."
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"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."
"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."
"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
"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."
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."
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