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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.
Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.
The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.
Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.
No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.
Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.
Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.
Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.
Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.
Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.
A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.
Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.