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We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

On the Supreme Court; opinion concurring in judgement in Brown v. Allen, 1953.

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The effect of the religious freedom Amendment to our Constitution was to take every form of propagation of religion out of the realm of things which could directly or indirectly be made public business, and thereby be supported in whole or in part at taxpayers' expense. That is a difference which the Constitution sets up between religion and almost every other subject matter of legislation, a difference which goes to the very root of religious freedom. This freedom was first in the Bill of Rights because it was first in the forefathers' minds; it was set forth in absolute terms, and its strength is its rigidity. It was intended not only to keep the states' hands out of religion, but to keep religion's hands off the state, and, above all, to keep bitter religious controversy out of public life by denying to every denomination any advantage from getting control of public policy or the public purse.

Dissent in Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township, 1947.

Business, Freedom, Government, Religion

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The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

Nuremberg Trials - 1945.

Politics, Power, Legal

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But when notice is a person's due, process which is a mere gesture is not 'due process.

Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 1950.

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The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

Dissent in Zorach v. Clauson, 1952.

Politics, Power, Religion

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It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.

Dissent in Zorach v. Clauson, 1952.

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We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.

Nuremberg Tribunal - 1945.

History

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If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.

Nuremberg Trials - 1945.

Patriotism

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The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact.

Humanity

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The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

Freedom, Religion

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