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Men of the best intentions and soundest views may differ in their construction of some parts of the Constitution, but there are others on which dispassionate reflection can leave no doubt.
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The case before us illustrates better than most that the judicial power is often difficult in its exercise.
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The question is whether a statute authorizing such proceedings in restraint of publication is consistent with the conception of the liberty of the press as historically conceived and guaranteed.
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Our constitutional system amply provides for the protection of minorities by means other than giving them majority control of state legislatures.
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To state the problem is to recall the truth that no single principle can answer all of life's complexities.
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The law, whether human or divine, is no respecter of persons; but the law is a respecter of reality.
Gerald Fordverified·Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon·September 8, 1974
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Government has a right to survive and powers conferred upon it are not necessarily set at naught by the express prohibitions of the Bill of Rights.
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Have none of my Fellow Creatures an equitable Right to any Part which is called mine?
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The concepts of "majority" and "minority" necessarily reflect temporary arrangements and political judgments.
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The real limit to be observed in friendship is this: the characters of two friends must be stainless.
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Wherefore the nature of a multitude is no more to be blamed than the nature of princes, since both equally err when they can do so without regard to consequences.
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General propositions do not decide concrete cases.
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This custom of ostracism was not intended as a punishment for crime, but was called, in order to give it a plausible title, a check to excessive power.
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Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest.
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Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any.
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It is never wrong to do the right thing.
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SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.