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Quotes by Judge
"Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution."
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"In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948."
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"The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried."
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"If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned."
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"There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment."
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"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."
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"There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning."
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"Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances."
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"The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power."
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"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."
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"The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it."
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"It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law."
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"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."
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"Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest."
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"Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen."
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"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
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"Beware how you take away hope from any human being."
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"Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers."
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"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."
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"Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome."
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"You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty."
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"Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower."
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"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
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"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
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"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals."
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"The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices, and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport."
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"You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out."
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"It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."
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"The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements."
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"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."
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"Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves."
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"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind."
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"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."
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"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."
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