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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.
The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.
The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be
I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.
If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.
I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."
To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.
The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.