You can't fight for your rights if you don't know what they are.

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• John Roberts:

  If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions

• John Roberts:

  There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. An

• John Roberts:

  People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for s

• John Roberts:

  When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job t

• John Roberts:

  President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to

• Thurgood Marshall:

  Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

• Thurgood Marshall:

  None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because s

• Thurgood Marshall:

  In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

• Thurgood Marshall:

  Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him

• Thurgood Marshall:

  Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control m