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• A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy…
• The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive…
• Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of…
• The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial…
• An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal…
• Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
• As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as…
• No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find…
• One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was…
• Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic…
• The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution
• When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes…

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