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" Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page. "
David Souter
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" The restoration comes not only from the landscape and air, though they play their significant part, but from the people. I feel a strong need to be in New Hampshire for as much of the summer as I can manage it. "
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" What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. "
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" History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past. "
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" Murder has foreseeable consequences. When it happens, it is always to distinct individuals, and after it happens, other victims are left behind. "
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" Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death. "
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" The court has to decide which of our approved desires has the better claim, right here, right now, and a court has to do more than read fairly when it makes this kind of choice. "
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Now
More
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" Millions of statements are made about the president every day on every subject and from every standpoint; threats of violence are not an integral feature of any one subject or viewpoint as distinct from others. Differential treatment of threats against the president, then, selects nothing but special risks, not special messages. "
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" The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another. "
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Values
Simple
Decision
" Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly. "
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Govern
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" I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain. "
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Try
Time
" The applicability of the Establishment Clause to public funding of benefits to religious schools was settled in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, which inaugurated the modern era of establishment doctrine. "
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Religious
Modern
Funding
" I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. "
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Future
About
American
" There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death. "
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Moral
Own
Time
" Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce. "
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Activity
Power
Congress
" I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country. "
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Thinking
Better
People
" The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once. "
David Souter
Constitution
Good
Simple
" While Congress did not, to my knowledge, calculate aggregate dollar values for the nationwide effects of racial discrimination in 1964, in 1994 it did rely on evidence of the harms caused by domestic violence and sexual assault, citing annual costs of $3 billion in 1990 and $5 to $10 billion in 1993. "
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Evidence
Values
Violence
" The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest. "
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Judge
Principle
Rest
" It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism. "
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Past
Time
World
" I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy. "
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Court
Intellectual
Great
" Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States. "
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Supreme Court
Constitution
Over
" For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision. "
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Language
Decision
Facts
" The Court's majority holds that the Establishment Clause is no bar to Ohio's payment of tuition at private religious elementary and middle schools under a scheme that systematically provides tax money to support the schools' religious missions. "
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Support
Court
Money
" The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches. "
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Constitution
Good
Freedom
" The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body. "
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Camera
See
You
" We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim. "
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Victim
Discrimination
Defense
" The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.' "
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Act
Violence
Response
" When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens. "
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Constitution
Well
Judicial
" If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty. "
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Speech
Decision
Always