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"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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"Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance."
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"Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight."
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"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."
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"Conscience does make cowards of us all."
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"Sin is all wrong doing."
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"Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny."
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"Good and evil are both fundamental features of the human mind."
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"She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. "These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-""No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones.""Awww."
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
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"The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption."
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"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."
Morality
"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
American
"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."
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"The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left."
Change
"I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing."
Time
"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."
Nature
"An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement."
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"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."
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"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."
Constitution
"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."
Fashion
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