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

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Source : "Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 466". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 27, 1939.

Felix Frankfurter

#Liberty Quotes #Constitution Quotes #Said Quotes

“I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.”
“As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.”
“There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.”
“Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.”
“Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.”

Source : Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books
“In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.”
“Beer was not made to be moralized about, but to be drunk.”

Source : "Carven from the laurel tree; essays".
“Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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