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Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
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Society
Censorship
Confidence
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
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Life
Medical
Abortion
Potential
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
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Difference
Ethics
Right
Fairness is what justice really is.
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Justice
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
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Today
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
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Fact
Liberty
Property
Right
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
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Justice
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
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Home
History
Rights
Man
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
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People
Rights
Property
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
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Constitution
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
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Cause
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
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Force
Law