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Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner…

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Harry A. Blackmun has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to…
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply…
I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the…
I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or…
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when…
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of…
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,…
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate…
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to…
If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the…
We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and…
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death,

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Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. — John Boehner
This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It… — Leslie Groves
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. — Friedrich August von Hayek
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of… — Felix Frankfurter
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when… — Harry A. Blackmun
Combining paid employment with marriage and motherhood creates safeguards for emotional well-being. Nothing is certain in life, but generally the chances of… — Faye J Crosby
One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness… — Unknown Author
Great interests demand great safeguards. — Thomas Francis Meagher
I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties. — Eliot Engel
Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises… — Denis de Rougemont
It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational… — Jalal Talabani
There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself. — J. Paul Getty

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