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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

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Charles Evans Hughes

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

Absence, Essence, Guilt, Liberty, Opinions, Recognized
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But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.

Essential, Law, Punishment, Recognized, Responsibility

Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

Emergency, Government, Grave, Liberty, Light, Restrictions

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

Power, Successfully, Wage, War

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Carpe Diem, Different, Diversity, Freedom, Privilege, Right

The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

Helplessness, Ignorant, Justice, Lying, Poor, Take
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