"The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward.……" — Anthony Kennedy
"The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust."
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25 Quotes by Anthony Kennedy
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There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000…
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The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom…
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The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was…
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The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be…
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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for…
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At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe,…
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Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of…
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As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
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Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask…
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We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail…
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Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
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No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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