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As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both i...  
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision ...  
Common sense often makes good law.  
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure but...   Politics
If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when t...  
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were t...  
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully endur...  
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the ...  
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's ...   History
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to auth...  
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wa...   History
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great...  
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in livin...  
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the governmen...  
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silenc...  
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.  
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Bein...  
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older th...  
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation...  
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to...  
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's...