Harry A. Blackmun quote: "By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken pre...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals wh...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimid...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home ...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in ord...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who ch...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

Dear Chief: I had a feeling that at the very close of today's Conference we may have fitted Matthew ...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion t...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

The flaw in the statute [is] that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken p...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in c...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

If one's in the doghouse with the Chief, he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases and some of the Ind...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home ...
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

Constitution compels abortion on demand.
HARRY A. BLACKMUN

Butcher of Dachau, murderer, Pontius Pilate, King Herod. You name it, it's all in there, ... On the ...
HARRY BLACKMUN

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely an...
HARRY BLACKMUN

as a person of judicial integrity who wrote acceptably well and contributed in more than one field. ...
HARRY BLACKMUN

[For the justices, Roe reflected earlier cases involving the right to privacy. That] right, ... broa...
HARRY BLACKMUN

Controversy over the meaning of our nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent,
HARRY BLACKMUN

the potentiality of human life.
HARRY BLACKMUN

[It was the issue of abortion that catapulted Blackmun to national prominence. When the case, Roe v....
HARRY BLACKMUN

The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evi...
JUSTICE HARRY A. BLACKMUN

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understandi...
HARRY A. OVERSTREET

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our ti...
HARRY A. OVERSTREET

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
HARRY A. OVERSTREET

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion th...
HARRY A. OVERSTREET

Continuing a short series on the Bible: Scripture nowhere condemns the acquisition of knowledge....
HARRY A. IRONSIDE

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE

The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE

Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE

Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. ATTANASIO

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MILNE

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you see...
A. A. MILNE

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. MILNE

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to...
A. A. MILNE

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
A. A. MILNE

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - ...
A. A. MILNE

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to ...
A. A. MILNE

Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A.

How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNE

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE

I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
A. A. MILNE

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
A. A. HODGE

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequat...
A. A. HODGE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. ...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A. A. MILNE

'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. Af...
A. A. MILNE

An Expedition to the North Pole.
A. A. HODGE

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there
A. A. MILNE

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. MILNE

We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
A. A. MILNE

Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a conditi...
A. A. HODGE

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE

No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
HARRY CARAY

I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and ever...
HARRY CARAY

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
HARRY CARAY

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
HARRY CARAY

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and l...
HARRY CARAY

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to ...
HARRY CARAY

Holy cow!
HARRY CARAY

It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
HARRY CARAY

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an...
HARRY CALLAHAN

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that thei...
HARRY CALLAHAN

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
HARRY BROWNE

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they kn...
HARRY BROWNE

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently...
HARRY BROWNE

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - ...
HARRY BROWNE

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world...
HARRY BROWNE

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their ow...
HARRY BROWNE

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - ki...
HARRY BROWNE

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
HARRY BROWNE

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government ...
HARRY BROWNE

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them s...
HARRY BROWNE

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to m...
HARRY BROWNE

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was pr...
HARRY BROWNE

I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, relea...
HARRY BROWNE

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while...
HARRY BROWNE

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken fo...
HARRY BROWNE

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
HARRY BROWNE

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while ...
HARRY BROWNE

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not j...
HARRY BROWNE

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life b...
HARRY BROWNE

I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
HARRY BRIDGES

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they...
HARRY BRIDGES

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
HARRY BRIDGES

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the tr...
HARRY BRIDGES

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the ...
HARRY BRIDGES

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people ...
HARRY BRIDGES

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spiri...
HARRY BELAFONTE

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
HARRY BELAFONTE

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought agains...
HARRY BELAFONTE

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think ...
HARRY BELAFONTE

If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if yo...
HARRY BELAFONTE

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
HARRY BELAFONTE

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
HARRY BELAFONTE

We treated all of the dead with dignity.
HARRY ANDERSON

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
HARRY ANDERSON

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
HARRY ANDERSON

I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody ...
HARRY ANDERSON

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
HARRY ANDERSON

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is...
HARRY ANDERSON

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?
HARRY ANDERSON

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
HARRY ANDERSON

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
JACKEE HARRY

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
JACKEE HARRY

When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was v...
JACKEE HARRY

I was married for four years, then success happened.
JACKEE HARRY

Water really does great things for my skin.
JACKEE HARRY

I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
JACKEE HARRY

I don't mind dating younger men now.
JACKEE HARRY

I don't exercise.
JACKEE HARRY

I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.
JACKEE HARRY

When I see something, I go for it.
JACKEE HARRY

I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
JACKEE HARRY

If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business,...
JACKEE HARRY

I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less ...
JACKEE HARRY

I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just w...
JACKEE HARRY

I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
JACKEE HARRY

I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.
JACKEE HARRY

I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
JACKEE HARRY

My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I...
JACKEE HARRY

My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision...
JACKEE HARRY

I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because the...
JACKEE HARRY

Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear ...
JACKEE HARRY

Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earn...
JACKEE HARRY

Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.
JACKEE HARRY

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts t...
HARRY BROWNE

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
HARRY CHAPIN

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors...
HARRY LLOYD

I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.
PRINCE HARRY

The chief problem with the individual investor: He or she typically buys when the market is high and...
HARRY MARKOWITZ

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly pe...
HARRY HOUDINI

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.
HARRY TRUMAN

It is a great boost for confidence in a squad when there is not just one or two players scoring goal...
HARRY KANE

Portfolio theory, as used by most financial planners, recommends that you diversify with a balance o...
HARRY MARKOWITZ

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
DEBBIE HARRY

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
DEBBIE HARRY

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always ...
HARRY SHEARER

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can...
HARRY TRUMAN

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring ...
PRINCE HARRY

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminde...
HARRY LORAYNE

The problem with the 11:11 Phenomenon is getting anybody interested in it that hasn't experienced it...
HARRY WHITEWOLF

Driving down deserted early morning roads. Round and round. Round downtown. Through naked streets. L...
HARRY WHITEWOLF

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY TRUMAN

A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.
HARRY STYLES

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
HARRY TRUMAN

Don't remember what you can infer.
HARRY TENNANT

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and ...
HARRY REASONER

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

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