William Rehnquist Quotes

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

William Rehnquist

#2. There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist ... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

Jonathan Turley

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

William Rehnquist

#4. All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.

Hiro Mashima

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

William Rehnquist

#6. 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,

William Rehnquist

#7. Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.

Perrie Edwards

#8. 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.

William Rehnquist

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

William Rehnquist

#10. If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

Gautama Buddha

#11. I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

David H. Murdock

#12. Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#13. 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.

William Rehnquist

#14. I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My hair looked like it had taken 2000 volts and been spray starched

Janet Evanovich

#15. 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.

William Rehnquist

#16. My mom giggled and whacked Dick with a dish towel. I would have whacked him harder with the cutting board, but that was just my preference.

Eileen Cook

#17. [N]o lie can live forever...

Bryan Stevenson

#18. Judge not; the workings of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see;
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God's pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.

Adelaide Anne Procter

#19. 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.

William Rehnquist

#20. That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with
a belt to protect me - that selfless girl, that's not you?

Veronica Roth

#21. [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.

William Rehnquist

#22. Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.

Robin Sharma

#23. I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.

Brian Higgins

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

William Rehnquist

#25. 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.

William Rehnquist

#26. Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.

William Rehnquist

#27. I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

Lita Ford