The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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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.
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It (government) is neither business nor technology nor applied science (It is) one of the subtlest of the arts since it is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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