Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I think whether you are a judge on my court or whether you are a judge on a court of appeals or any court, and lawyers too - and if you're interested in law yourself, you'll be in the same situation - you have a text that isn't clear. If the text is clear, you follow the text. If the text isn't clear, you have to work out what it means. And that requires context.

Stephen Breyer's Popular Quotes

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

- Stephen Breyer

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

- Stephen Breyer

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

- Stephen Breyer

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty

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Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

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There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

- Stephen Breyer

This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility suffi…

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You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large…

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To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

- Stephen Breyer