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Stephen Breyer Quotes

Stephen Breyer quotes about people

American Judge August 15, 1938

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The Court has a special responsibility to ensure that the Constitution works in practice. While education, including the transmission of our civic values from one generation to the next, must play the major role in maintaining public confidence in the Court's decisions, the Court too must help maintain public acceptance of its own legitimacy. It can do this best by helping ensure that the Constitution remains "workable" in a broad sense of the term. Specifically, it can and should... Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer quote: "People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If..."
People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost. Stephen Breyer
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. Stephen Breyer
You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts. Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer quote: "It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are..."
It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer quote: "I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing..."
I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it. Stephen Breyer

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