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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?
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The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.
Calvin Coolidgeverified·To the State Senate on Being Elected Its President, in Have Faith in Massachusetts·January 7, 1914
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Our whole system of self-government will crumble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce or citizens elect what laws they will support.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment.