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The Court's opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity.

— Antonin Scalia

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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.

Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.

For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence.

I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement.

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