6 Quotes & Sayings By Anthony Kennedy

Anthony Kennedy is the current Supreme Court Justice. He was born in Sacramento, California, on July 23, 1936. After graduating from Stanford Law School in 1959, he went to work as a law clerk for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S Read more

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. After serving under Chief Justice Earl Warren at the Supreme Court, Kennedy returned to his hometown of Sacramento where he practiced civil and criminal law until 1985. He also served as an adjunct professor at Boalt Law School at University of California, Berkeley where he taught until 2007.

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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. Anthony Kennedy
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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. Anthony Kennedy
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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. Anthony Kennedy
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As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. Anthony Kennedy
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The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done. Anthony Kennedy