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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

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When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
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It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
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It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
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The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
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The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.
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The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.
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Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
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Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
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To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
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Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
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We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.
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By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
Howard Fineman
Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.
Jon Porter
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White
I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.
Sarah Polley
I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.
Hilary Duff
Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
Alan Ladd
I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.
Jessica Hahn
P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.
Johnny Kelly
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope
I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
Louie Anderson
For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
Thora Birch
I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
Anna Friel
I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.
Robert Matsui
I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
Pete Stark
I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
David Letterman
My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.
Stephen Rea
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
Raymond Queneau
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer
I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?
Stacey Dash
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone
Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.
Joe Lando
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie
You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
Kate Hudson
I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.
Ethan Suplee
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
Roger Nash Baldwin
In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.
Mike Pence
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike
Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.
David Hyde Pierce
My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.
Cliff Stearns
We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
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