Top 25 Anthony Kennedy Quotes
#2. The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.
Anthony Kennedy
#3. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
Anthony Kennedy
#4. Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.
Anthony Kennedy
#5. No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.
Anthony Kennedy
#6. Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
Anthony Kennedy
#7. When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.
Anthony Kennedy
#8. The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
Anthony Kennedy
#9. There are some forty thousand children in California, according to the red brief, that live with same-sex parents, and they want their parents to have full recognition and full status. The voice of those children is important in this case, don't you think?
Anthony Kennedy
#10. In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.
Anthony Kennedy
#11. Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
Anthony Kennedy
#12. Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
Anthony Kennedy
#13. We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
Anthony Kennedy
#14. The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
Anthony Kennedy
#15. No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
Anthony Kennedy
#16. At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.
Anthony Kennedy
#17. The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.
Anthony Kennedy
#18. I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.
Anthony Kennedy
#19. The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.
Anthony Kennedy
#20. The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.
Anthony Kennedy
#21. The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.
Anthony Kennedy
#22. Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
Anthony Kennedy
#23. You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.
Anthony Kennedy
#24. The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
Anthony Kennedy
#25. Sometimes it is easy ... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
Anthony Kennedy
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