Judge Quotes

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
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