Top 13 William Rehnquist Quotes

#1. The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

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#2. The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

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#3. We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

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#4. I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed,

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#5. It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

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#6. Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

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#7. The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

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#8. If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

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#9. In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor ... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.

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#10. [I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

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#11. Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability

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#12. Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

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#13. Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.

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