The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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It (government) is neither business nor technology nor applied science (It is) one of the subtlest of the arts since it is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible to exercise power from behind the scenes.
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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
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