Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.

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  There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality o

• Potter Stewart:

  Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

• Learned Hand:

  Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court

• Brett Kavanaugh:

  If confirmed to the D.C. Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be bi

• Clarence Thomas:

  The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life th

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  To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

• Benjamin N. Cardozo:

  Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

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  All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we wo

• John Atkinson:

  If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

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  I knew better, even as a child, than to even attempt to compete with Donald.