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The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always…

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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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On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence… — Walter Scott
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance,… — William J. Brennan
Stern is the visage of necessity. — Friedrich Schiller
Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? — William Shakespeare
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. — Thomas Fuller
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism.… — George Edward Woodberry
There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day… — Thomas Hardy
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered,… — Oscar Wilde
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day… — Jack Kerouac
We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do… — William Shakespeare
I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made… — William Goldman
Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the… — John Keats

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