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" Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court. "

Anthony Kennedy

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" I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus. "

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" The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done. "

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" Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. "

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" In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble. "

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" We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be. "

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" You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular. "

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" The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. "

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" As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. "

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" No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. "

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