Top 14 John Harlan Quotes

#1. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

John Marshall Harlan

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#2. [O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.

John Marshall Harlan

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#3. Privacy in one's associations ... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

John Marshall Harlan II

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#4. But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

John Marshall Harlan

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#5. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

John Marshall Harlan

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#6. We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.

John Marshall Harlan II

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#7. Our inner selves go on without us sometimes, trusting we'll catch on eventually. Sometimes it's too late when we do - too late to let the other person know what we've learned.

Meredith Marple

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#8. The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

Thomas Jefferson

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#9. Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#10. The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

Clara Hughes

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#11. 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.

John Marshall Harlan

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#12. Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.

Markus Zusak

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#13. Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.

Ashleigh Brilliant

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#14. One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

John Marshall Harlan II

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