"A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold."

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Source : Citizens United, Appellant v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, 2010.

John Paul Stevens

#Believe Quotes #Law Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Never let me hear that foolish word again.”
“I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.”
“Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.”
“It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the ***** jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much ***** humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them.”
“It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say, a rhythmical movement regulated by itself in which variations and pulsations form a part of the artistic design.”
“Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.”

Source : Giacomo Meyerbeer, Heinz Becker, Gudrun Becker (1989). “Giacomo Meyerbeer, a life in letters”, Timber Pr
“If you just read Leviticus on the surface, you may think it's just a bunch of grumpy irrelevant rules; but, it's actually the way God gave his people access to himself.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.”

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