History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
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Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby.
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I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
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