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Quotes by Judge
"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."
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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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"I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle."
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"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
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"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
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"Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments."
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"The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'"
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"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."
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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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"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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"But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government."
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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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"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
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"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
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"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
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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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"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
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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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"Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own."
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"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
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"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."
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"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
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"The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved."
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"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him."
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"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
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"Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special."
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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
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