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"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."

"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."

"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."

"During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village."

"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."

"Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities."
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"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."

"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."

"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."
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