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Well, in my job, I avoid political commentary.
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
It is always well to get near to men of genius.
It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.
The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
The US States are our laboratories of democracy.
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
I would rather create a precedent than find one.
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.
I think most people didn't want to do court duty.
The very air in which you live is an inspiration.
The one governmental agency that has no ambition.
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
What a man thinks is no concern of the government.
The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.
Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.
The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
A person of genius should marry a person of character.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.
Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.
There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.