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Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right… — Alan Dershowitz
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History… — Felix Frankfurter
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. — J. G. Holland
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people… — Alan K. Simpson
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for… — Shana Alexander
In order to make friends you must first be friendly — Dale Carnegie
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk.… — Lord Byron
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular. — Charles Caleb Colton
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't… — Clarence Day
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to… — Nicholas A. Christakis
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.… — Lillian Gish
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of… — Sam Keen
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead — Charles Dickens
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." — Robert Breault
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside… — Jean Cocteau
First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create… — Robert Breault
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of… — Robert Louis Stevenson
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. — Charles J. Givens
The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first. — Drake

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