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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because…

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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow…
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit…
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to…
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the…
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an…
Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but…
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's…
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the…
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of…
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our…

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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so… — Winston Churchill
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests… — Leonard Cohen
I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree… — Hiram Maxim
One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
You can disagree without being disagreeable. — Zig Ziglar
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. — James Boswell
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. — Samuel Johnson
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent. — John of the Cross
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce

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