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Quotes by Judge
"All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself."
38
"We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians."
38
"Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances."
38
"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost."
38
"In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction."
38
"Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge."
38
"Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent."
37
"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."
37
"Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred."
37
"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."
37
"A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion."
37
"A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable."
37
"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."
37
"The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done."
37
"People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable."
37
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
37
"I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth."
37
"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."
37
"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
37
"Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture."
37
"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
37
"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
37
"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."
37
"In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character."
37
"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
37
"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."
37
"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."
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