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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work. P. Sathasivam

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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case. Patricia Millett

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I do not believe there are any circumstances in which a judge should consider his or her own values or policy preferences in determining what the law means. Paul Watford

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The Court has long held that the Constitution protects certain fundamental rights that are not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution's text, while at the same time emphasizing that courts must proceed with great caution in recognizing such rights. Paul Watford

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It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. 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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Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. Potter Stewart

Justice More Demands Than Just Swift

In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they happen, but they are pretty rare, given the number of parts involved. Raymond Kethledge

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Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen - Republican or Democrat, Socialist or libertarian - should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds. Raymond Kethledge

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I would make sure that the values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values. Raymond Kethledge

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I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it. Raymond Kethledge

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I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot. Raymond Kethledge

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While driving to work, I'll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it. Raymond Kethledge

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Cell-site data - like mailing addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses - are information that facilitate personal communications rather than part of the content of those communications themselves. The government's collection of business records containing these data, therefore, is not a search. Raymond Kethledge

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The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation's interests and enforcing its laws - all of them, not just selective ones - in a manner worthy of the department's name. Raymond Kethledge

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Values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values, that I am not striking something down simply because I don't like it. That is a countermajoritarian aspect of our system of government. I would start with the text. Raymond Kethledge

I love to write. Raymond Kethledge

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We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence. Rene Cassin

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And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. Rene Cassin

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As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general. Rene Cassin

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