The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

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