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Quotes by Judge
"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
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"The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was."
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"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us."
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"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure."
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"And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?"
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"It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse."
Law,
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"We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works."
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"I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run."
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"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."
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"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."
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"The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time."
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"If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless."
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"To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution,' an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country."
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"Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability."
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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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"There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different."
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"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment."
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"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
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"It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written."
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"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for."
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"I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected."
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"The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will."
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"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."
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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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"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."
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"To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone."
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"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
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"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."
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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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"I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent."
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"If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility."
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"It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage."
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"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment."
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"If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law."
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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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