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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
I fear we may live to see another revolution.
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.
[Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart.
The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.
There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.
The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.