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I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories... We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
Thurgood Marshall
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
America
Memories
Powerful
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From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.
Tom C. Clark
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Real
Religious
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The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
Hugo Black
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Peace
Government
War
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The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of religion, the inevitable result had been that it had incurred the hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs.
Hugo Black
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Country
Hatred
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It does seem to me, though, that the countries that gained most from World Summit on the Information Society are those that saw it as an opportunity to engage in more diverse discussion about the issues internally and to seek to raise the quality of debate (both in terms of information and understanding).
David Souter
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Opportunity
Country
Issues
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What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Clothes
Common
Customs
English Language
Manifestation
Mother Tongue
Prevailing
Speech
Substitutes
Superficial
Tongue
Adopt
English
Itself
Generally
Immigrant
Medium
Presented
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Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Differences
Expression
Ideas
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The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and very seldom use the spurs. So it was with our chief [William Rehnquist]. He guided us with loose reins and used the spurs only rarely to get us up to speed with our work.
Sandra Day O'connor
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Leadership
Women
Horse
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Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very effectively the percentages of law graduates out of graduating classes. We have far more than we ever did before and it's continued to grow, but it isn't a nice match yet.
Sandra Day O'connor
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Class
Law
Nice
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We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.
Harry A. Blackmun
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Difficult Questions
Philosophy
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The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.
Stanley Forman Reed
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Justice
Mean
Rely Upon
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Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.
Robert H. Jackson
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Doubt
Finals
Justice
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We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.
Thurgood Marshall
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Opportunity
Citizens
Denied
Deserve
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Full Potential
Race
Thrown
Life Future Past
Full
Deal
Whatever
Fences
In The Past
Potential
Reach
Start
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I do not enjoy being away from Richmond, my friends of a lifetime, and my home... I do not enjoy working 6 days a week and almost every night at a time when I had planned to be tapering off. There are compensations which appeal to any lawyer who is proud of his profession. The Supreme Court is an awesome place.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Every Night
Lifetime
Profession
Richmond
Supreme
Supreme Court
Appeal
Time Home Night
Awesome
Planned
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During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Appreciation
Americanism
Contact
Judaism
Our Lives
Life Time Myself
Affords
Due
From Time To Time
Jews
Opportunities
Save
Showing
Slight
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A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.
William Rehnquist
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Children
Father
Mother
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Death
Believe
Country
Expression
Interference
Law
Loathe
Thinking
Vigilant
Against
Attempts
Check
Eternally
Fraught
Immediate
Opinions
Pressing
Purposes
Required
Save
Threaten
Unless
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The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
Hugo Black
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
People
Responsibility
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Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.
Robert H. Jackson
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Education
Running
Retirement
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The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right.
David Souter
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Heart
Mind
Simple
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However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Attainment
Conformity
Demand
Harmony
Ideals
Rooted
Affections
Americanized
Aspirations
Brought
Complete
Cooperate
Deeply
However
Immigrant
Interests
Outward
Properly
Unless
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The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that "no law" does not mean what it says, that "no law" is qualified to mean "some" laws. I cannot take this step.
William O. Douglas
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Law
Mean
Order
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I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals... Add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.
David Josiah Brewer
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Christian
Religious
Teaching
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When I joined the Supreme Court in 1975, both state and federal judges accepted the Court's unanimous decision in United States v. Miller as having established that the Second Amendment's protection of the right to bear arms was possessed only by members of the militia and applied only to weapons used by the militia.
John Paul Stevens
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Accepted
Arms
Possessed
Protection
Supreme
Supreme Court
Weapons
Amendment
Applied
Established
Bear
Joined
Judges
Miller
Unanimous
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No doubt, there are those who believe that judges - and particularly dissenting judges - write to hear themselves say, as it were, 'I, I, I.' And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.
William J. Brennan
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Believe
Judging
Writing
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Every individual who participated in the redistricting process knew that incumbency protection was a critical factor in producing the bizarre lines. ... Many of the oddest twists and turns of the Texas districts would never have been created if the Legislature had not been so intent on protecting party and incumbents.
John Paul Stevens
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Party
Political
Texas
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There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from religious liberty without danger, and ultimately without destruction to both. Wherever religious liberty exists, it will, first or last, bring in and establish political liberty.
Joseph Story
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Truth
Long
Religious
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If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Enemy
Favors
Trouble
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Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.
Abe Fortas
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Acceptance
Expression
Law
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Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death.
David Souter
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Associates
Competence
Responsibility
Unique
Close
Criminal
Defendant
Endowed
Himself
Mental
Suffer
Survivors
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There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact, nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, an applicant has a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits.
William O. Douglas
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Color
Race
White
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The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.
William O. Douglas
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Secret
Taken
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The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day.
Joseph Story
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Passion
Rights
Yield
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We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Criticize
Groups
Labor
Materials
Organized
Textbooks
Viewpoints
Analyze
Insist
Likewise
Review
Rights Movement
Universities
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You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.
Sandra Day O'connor
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Answers
Law
Resolution
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The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.
Hugo Black
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Law
Mean
Simple
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But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas. That is the philosophy of the First Amendment; and it is this article of faith that sets us apart from most nations in the world.
William O. Douglas
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Ideas
Philosophy
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Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Equality
Inspirational
Availability
Law
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Millions of statements are made about the president every day on every subject and from every standpoint; threats of violence are not an integral feature of any one subject or viewpoint as distinct from others. Differential treatment of threats against the president, then, selects nothing but special risks, not special messages.
David Souter
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Messages
Millions
Special
Standpoint
Statements
Treatment
Violence
Differential
Distinct
Feature
Day Every Day Nothing
Integral
Risks
Subject
Threats
Viewpoint
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What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered the right of trial by jury in civil cases an important bulwark against tyranny and corruption, a safeguard too precious to be left to the whim of the sovereign, or, it might be added, to that of the judiciary.
William Rehnquist
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Important
Law
Use
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When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Women
Mean
Powerful
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Freedom
Men
Independent
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The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.
Sandra Day O'connor
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Doe
Political
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The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patroled.
William O. Douglas
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Beautiful
Community
Spiritual
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Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.
George Sutherland
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Hands
Land
Memories
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The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Loyalty
Freedom
War
Country
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Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.
Felix Frankfurter
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Freedom
Men
Selfish
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.
Felix Frankfurter
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Gratitude
Land
Sky
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When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'
Louis D. Brandeis
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Blood
Council
Defined
Despite
Moral
Pride
Pundits
Special
Superiority
Talent
Term
Jewish
Acts
Instincts
Exhibit
Marx
Meditations
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I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.
Robert H. Jackson
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Bed
Law
Night
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