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The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in…

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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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The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and… — William J. Brennan
Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of… — Robert E. Lee
A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends. — James Monroe
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda
It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant… — Swami Vivekananda
This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles… — Marc Forne Molne
Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend… — Zhuangzi
Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men — Tunku Abdul Rahman
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the… — Winston Churchill
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a… — Gottfried Leibniz
Great principles, great ideals know no nationality. — Marcus Garvey
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. — Eugene V. Debs

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