John Roberts Quotes

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• Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the…
• For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the…
• There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to…
• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and…
• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of…
• By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those…
• Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
• People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
• The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
• Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice…
• While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true that only Supreme…
• There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever…
• If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the…
• People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined…
• Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up…
• President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people.…
• I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule…

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