Anthony Kennedy Quotes & Sayings
12 most famous Anthony Kennedy quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 88 year old American judge born on Jul 23, 1936.
“The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.”
“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.”
“Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.”
“I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.”
“No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.”
“As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.”
“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.”
“Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.”
“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.”
“In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.”
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