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Quotes by Judge
"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."
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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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"We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other."
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"The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience."
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"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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"The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice."
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"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
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"Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties."
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"But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that."
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"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."
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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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"The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves."
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"The oldest theory of contract is I think negative."
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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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"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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"In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science."
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"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."
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"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
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"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."
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"The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial."
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"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."
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"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."
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"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."
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"The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime."
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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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"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."
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"In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced."
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