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" All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. "
Words
Tools
Constitution
" Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. "
Answers
Begging
Wrong
" Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. "
Decide
Question
Single
" 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. "
Writing
Cherish
Constitution
" Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. "
Free
Society
Achieving
" Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. "
Gratitude
Emotions
Deep
" 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. "
My Life
Life
Live
" I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. "
Human
Enough
He
" It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. "
Nice
Liberty
People
" It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach. "
Man
Hold
Force
" It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. "
Wise Man
Inequality
Man
" It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. "
Must
Order
Tomorrow
" It simply is not true that war never settles anything. "
Simply
Anything
Never
" Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. "
Yesterday
Day
Deep
" Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. "
Litigation
Ends
Chess
" Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. "
Man
Old Age
Sickness
" The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. "
Safeguards
Liberty
History
" The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. "
Mind
Man
Mark
" The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. "
Mode
Which
Effort
" The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. "
Real
Exercise
Power
" There can be no security where there is fear. "
Fear
Security
Where
" The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. "
Constitution
Ultimate
Said
" To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. "
Equal
Facts
Some
" We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. "
Successful
Professional
Most
" Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. "
Late
Never
Too
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