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When I got into Yale College, got into Yale Law School. I've worked my tail off. Brett Kavanaugh
Law School College Law School Tail Yale Got Off Worked
I am not a pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant judge. Brett Kavanaugh
Judge Am
I am not a pro-prosecution or pro-defense judge. Brett Kavanaugh
Judge Am
My wife and daughters have faced vile and violent threats. Brett Kavanaugh
Vile Wife Threats Faced Daughters Violent
I've tried to do a lot of good for a lot of people. Brett Kavanaugh
Good People Tried Lot
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. Byron White
History Speak Spend Protects Amendment Right
Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. Byron White
Apprehend Others Immediate Threat Resulting Failing Force Him Deadly Does Officer Suspect Where Justify Use Poses Harm
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. Byron White
Law Will Busy Indeed Moral Constantly Morality Laws Clause Courts Due Very Essentially Representing Process Choices Notions Based
Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them. Cesare Beccaria
Knowledge Complicated Numerous Our Must Mutually More Lead Roads Ideas Depart Them Connected
The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life. Cesare Beccaria
Happiness Life Natural Law Political Men Three First Society Others Alike Moral Purpose Main Lead Mortal Towards Between Principles Revelation Govern Sources Artificial Regard Conventions Derived Comparison
Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted. Cesare Beccaria
Great Gratitude Simple Prosperity Nation Nothing Down Earn Considered Those Sign Would Easy Immortal Laws Hymns Throughout Generations Him Least Spread Wanted Which Await Vigour
Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them. Cesare Beccaria
Jealousy Humanity Hate Envy Conspiracy Other Philosophers Intrigue Out See Born Only Vulgar Sciences Effect Than Which Them Organisation Prejudiced Jesuits Harm
The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each. Cesare Beccaria
Building Humane Ought Architect Gentle Self-Love His Interest Lenient Interests Skilled Product Who Each Foundation Raises
No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs. Cesare Beccaria
Good Man World Liberty Own Every Others Possible Would Only Sees Freely Himself Affairs Sake Were His Did Fiction Public Centre Prefer Us Public Good Each Appears Bind Binding Ever Portion Every Man
If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations. Cesare Beccaria
Humanity Liberty Tyranny Degree Crimes Punishments Scale Reliable Would Exact Shared Instrument Fairly Were Malice Nations Different Measure Basic Universal
To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling. Cesare Beccaria
Made Feeling Increases Relation State Severity Diminish Punishment Must Constant Object Spirits Maintain Between Wishes Gentle Human Sensibility Social Extent
Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure. Cesare Beccaria
Man Fear Men Feelings Superficial Laws Lead Cruel Nevertheless Most Greater Because Subjected Than Moderate Being Interest Prefer Them Themselves Each Injure Injured Desire
Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other! Cesare Beccaria
Good Happy Progress Evil Slow Few Other Those Extremity Laws Till Waited Prudent Human Nations Transition Produce Should Succession
It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society. Cesare Beccaria
Life Justice Injustice Political Goodness Society Harmful Relationships Intrinsic Observer Limits Task Establish Regarding Public Theologians Act Public Life Useful Wickedness
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity. Cesare Beccaria
History Men Free Few Tools Our Books See Rarely Laws Shall Free Men Open Passions Been Contracts History Books Few Men Offspring Haphazard Anything Fleeting Should Amongst Necessity
It is impossible to anticipate all of the misdeeds engendered by the universal conflict of human passions. They multiply at a compound rate with the growth in population and the interlacing of particular interests that cannot be directed with geometrical precision towards the public utility. Cesare Beccaria
Conflict Impossible Compound Rate Directed Towards Particular Geometrical Passions Anticipate Precision Human Cannot Public Interests Multiply Population Utility Growth Universal
The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals. Cesare Beccaria
Living Oath Restrain Tacit Laws Individuals Force Private Subjects Authority Sovereign Order Either Which Interest Fidelity Expressed Sworn Receive
When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there. Charles Bowen
Man Dark Black Looking Hat Black Hat Case Reminded Like Blind Blind Man Am Equity Hear Which Room
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. Charles Evans Hughes
Day Intelligence Law Brooding Spirit Another Another Day Appeals
Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry. Charles Evans Hughes
Men Dissipation Worry Overwork Die
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law. Charles Evans Hughes
Time Law Become Cases Opinions Number
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