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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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"As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."
"Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights."
"Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution."
"Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846."
"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."
"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
"As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate."
"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights."
"If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court."
"The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled."
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"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."
"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."
"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
"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."
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
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