Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

Noah Feldman
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  1. Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  2. Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  3. The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. - Oscar Wilde

  4. To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. - Maya Angelou

  5. Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why?- Isn't it gorgeous? - Dave Eggers

More Quotes By Noah Feldman
  1. As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

  2. We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages when faith was theoretically uniform it was always practically individual.

  3. Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

  4. Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

  5. Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

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