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"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"
"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."
"To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity."
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"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."
"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
"When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions."
"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."
"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."
"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."
"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."
"Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere."
"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason."
"In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge."
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