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William Rehnquist has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that…
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The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."
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If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual,…
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It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate…
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Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure…
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I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think…
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The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as…
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Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability
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What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our…
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The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
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A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly…
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...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
— Emma Goldman
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
— Vladimir Lenin
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
— Walter Lippmann
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...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect…
— James Madison
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If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those…
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I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
— William James
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It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have…
— John L. DeWitt
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The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in…
— John Coleman
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An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in…
— James Madison
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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the…
— Herbert Croly
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