Anthony Kennedy Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Anthony Kennedy Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Anthony Kennedy Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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I do not think that we should select judges based on a

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Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
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The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.
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We hold that same sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all states.
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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.
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No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
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A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn’t like it, she doesn’t like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are “soft on crime” betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.
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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 they once were.
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Civics isn’t something where you learned – learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves by their Constitution. That is what creates us. This is our heritage, and you must know our heritage.
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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
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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.
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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.
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Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles and not public pressures of other sort. That’s the meaning of neutrality.
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Sometimes it is easy… to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that’s not been the tradition of the court.
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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.
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