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I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

Clarence Thomas

I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I’m on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that’s your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.
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I don’t really have the luxury to be bitter. I don’t have the luxury of having negative things in my life.
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You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They’re people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.
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Choice Distraction Fight Life People Yourself
And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They’re just my kind of people.
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Country Hands Kind Love Myself Patriot People Work
I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.
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Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
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A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.
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Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.
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A theory deeply etched in our law is that a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
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My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.
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In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today’s decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.
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Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.
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Citizenship Country Goodness Human Ourselves Time
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
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