It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
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The Court years, 1939-1975: the autobiography of William O. Douglas? (1980), p. 3.William O. Douglas
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Roger's got too many shots, too much talent in one body. It's hardly fair that one person can do all this—his backhands, his forehands, volleys, serving, his court position. The way he moves around the court, you feel like he's barely touching the ground. That's the sign of a great champion.
Roger Federer
On executing minors: What a mockery today's opinion makes of Hamilton's expectation, announcing the Court's conclusion - that the meaning of our Constitution has changed over the past 15 years—not, mind you, not that this Court's decision 15 years ago was wrong, but that the Constitution has changed. The Court reaches this implausible result by purporting to advert, not to the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment, but to the evolving standards of decency, of our national society. It then finds, on the flimsiest of grounds, that a national consensus which could not be perceived in our people's laws barely 15 years ago now solidly exists.
Antonin Scalia
Ain't no doubt about it
We were doubly blessed
Cause we were barely seventeen
And we were barely dressed.Jim Steinman
It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.
Henry Kissinger
The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.
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