Bill Jefferson

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“It is my belief that there are “absolutes” in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant, and meant their prohibitions to be “absolute.””
—Hugo Black (b. 1922)

“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [political offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)