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"You are silent now who once stood on battlefields ravaged by destruction unimaginable, holding in those desperate places the line of freedom for others you would never know, and who would never know you. And being one of those you never knew, I would give all I have to clasp your hand one single time, look into eyes that witnessed the bloodied carnage that results when freedom refuses to bow to chains of any kind, and simply say 'thank you."

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."

"Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security."

"The things men did or felt they had to do."

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

"If you learn to be grateful and celebrate each day, you have mastered the secret to living."
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"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."

"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."

"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage."

"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."

"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."
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