In The Eyes Of Government We Are

A Search Is A Search, Even If It Happens To Disclose Nothing But The Bottom Of A Turntable.

[international Law] Doesn't Show What The Constitution Originally Meant, And It Doesn't Show What Is Fundamentally Important To Americans Today. It Shows What's Fundamentally Important To Somebody Else Today.

Many Think It Not Only Inevitable But Entirely Proper That Liberty Give Way To Security In Times Of National Crisis--that, At The Extremes Of Military Exigency, Inter Arma Silent Leges. Whatever The General Merits Of The View That War Silences Law Or Modulates Its Voice, That View Has No Place In The Interpretation And Application Of A Constitution Designed Precisely To Confront War And, In A Manner That Accords With Democratic Principles, To Accommodate It.

You're Looking At Me As Though I'm Weird. My God! Are You So Out Of Touch With Most Of America, Most Of Which Believes In The Devil? I Mean, Jesus Christ Believed In The Devil! It's In The Gospels! You Travel In Circles That Are So, So Removed From Mainstream America That You Are Appalled That Anybody Would Believe In The Devil! Most Of Mankind Has Believed In The Devil, For All Of History. Many More Intelligent People Than You Or Me Have Believed In The Devil.

You Can't Come In Smugly And With Great Self Satisfaction And Say 'oh It's Torture, And Therefore It's No Good.' Is It Really So Easy To Determine That Smacking Someone In The Face To Determine Where He Has Hidden The Bomb That Is About To Blow Up Los Angeles Is Prohibited In The Constitution? It Would Be Absurd To Say You Couldn't Do That. And Once You Acknowledge That, We're Into A Different Game.