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Top 15 Stephen Breyer Quotes (2025 Update)

Stephen Breyer Quote: “This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution’s demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions.”

1. “This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution’s demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions.”

— Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer Quote: “To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.”

2. “To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.”

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Stephen Breyer Quote: “I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can’t have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what is the justification for saying no gay marriage? Certainly not the one you said, is it?”

3. “I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can’t have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what is the justification for saying no gay marriage? Certainly not the one you said, is it?”

— Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer Quote: “It doesn’t help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.”

4. “It doesn’t help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.”

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Stephen Breyer Quote: “The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it’s fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it’s not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.”

5. “The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it’s fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it’s not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.”

— Stephen Breyer

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Stephen Breyer Quote: “Independence doesn’t mean you decide the way you want.”

6. “Independence doesn’t mean you decide the way you want.”

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Stephen Breyer Quote: “You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.”

7. “You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.”

— Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer Quote: “The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.”

8. “The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.”

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Stephen Breyer Quote: “People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.”

9. “People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.”

— Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer Quote: “Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.”

10. “Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.”

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Stephen Breyer Quote: “You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.”

11. “You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.”

— Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer Quote: “We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.”

12. “We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.”

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Stephen Breyer Quote: “There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren’t loads of countries where they’re followed.”

13. “There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren’t loads of countries where they’re followed.”

— Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer Quote: “And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think – what’s going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?”

14. “And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think – what’s going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?”

— Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer Quote: “Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.”

15. “Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.”

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Stephen Breyer Quote: “It’s important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.”

16. “It’s important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.”

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Stephen Breyer Quote: “Judges are appointed often through the political process.”

17. “Judges are appointed often through the political process.”

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Stephen Breyer Quote: “Open mindedness is not blank mindedness, open mindedness is being prepared to change your view when presented with a better set of proofs and arguments.”

18. “Open mindedness is not blank mindedness, open mindedness is being prepared to change your view when presented with a better set of proofs and arguments.”

— Stephen Breyer

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