#rote

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. ↗

— Hugo Black

#made #protect #suspicious #trusting #well

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. ↗

— Hugo Black

#fathers #founding #founding fathers #free #free press

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#definition #did #discount #does #fact

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#constitution #heart #her #his #home

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. ↗

— William Blackstone

#every #good #individual #interested #more

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. ↗

— Len Deighton

#asked #asking #book #come #first

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#exposed #government #help #influences #job

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#countries #dependent #energy #foreign #foreign countries

What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#community #did #down #historic #i

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. ↗

— Tony Blair

#because #bought #dad #especially #family