To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.
No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.
This is not OK, and we would like the secretary of state to say so.
Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
Where we are moving to is taking an individual's cancer and measuring particular characteristics of it and saying, 'OK, you've got this wrong, this wrong and this wrong in your tumor and, therefore, I am going to treat you with Drug X, Drug Y and Drug Z because that is tailored to your cancer.'
The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.
The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the Constitution is written.
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
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