Hugo Black Quotes
I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
Quotes to Explore
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.
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Accord, n. Harmony.
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Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.
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Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
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Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.
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Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
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Los Angeles doesn't have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that's something that really interests me.
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Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.
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As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.
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There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.
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I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
