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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Well I think that what we’re seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don’t have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

You don’t have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

The war on coal is the war on working Americans.