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The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long h

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. – Potter Stewart

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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. – Potter Stewart

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The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. – Potter Stewart

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Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. – Potter Stewart

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Assassination has never changed the history of the world. – Benjamin Disraeli

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The writing of histories – as Goethe once noted – is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past…. The writing of history liberates us from history. – Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty

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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. – James A. Baldwin

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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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When youre wounded and left on Afghanistans plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. – Rudyard Kipling

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The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. – Otto von Bismarck

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