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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn’t extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.