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Quotes by Judge
"Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers."
45
"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
45
"The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence."
45
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
45
"Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law."
45
"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence."
45
"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."
44
"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."
44
"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."
44
"The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government."
44
"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."
44
"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
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"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."
44
"We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves."
May,
44
"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."
44
"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."
44
"But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government."
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"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."
44
"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."
44
"In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along."
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"The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech."
44
"In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions."
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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
44
"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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"Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy."
44
"Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?"
44
"The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches."
43
"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
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"Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not."
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