Alexander Bickel quotes
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“We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.”
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“[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.”
-- Alexander Bickel
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Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.
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Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
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Source : A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK
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Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.
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