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"It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court - Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito - has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority."
"As we have seen from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's example, even one justice can profoundly alter the meaning of those words for our citizens. Even one justice can deeply affect the rights and liberties of the American people."
"Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists."
"Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law?"
"When I look at that record in light of the 1985 job application to the [Ronald] Reagan Justice Department, it's even more troubling.That document lays out an ideological agenda that highlights Judge Samuel Alito in belonging to an alumni group at Princeton that opposed the admission of women and proposed to curb the admission of racial minorities."
"If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice will have a direct impact on the lives and liberties of our children, our grandchildren, and even our great-grandchildren."
"We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!"
"What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God."
"Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead."
"But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave."
"Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties"
"You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure."
"Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy."
"Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice."
"Every place is safe to him who lives with justice."
"The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it."
"We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice."
"Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by."
"An ally need not own the land he helps."
"I'd like to think humans have a stronger sense of justice than the random forces of nature do."
