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Abraham Lincoln: "The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government of the next." ¡§The good judge is ¡§open-minded and detached¡Kheedful of limitations stemming from the judges own competence and, above all, from the presuppositions of our constitutional scheme; the good judge¡Krecognizes that a felt need to act only interstitially doen not mean relegation of judges to a trivial or mechanical role, but rather affords the most responsible room for creative, important judicial contributions.¡¨ ¡§It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property, and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit.¡¨ ¡§I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, do equal right to the poor to the rich, and that I will impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me, according to the best of my abilities and understanding agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States, so help me God.¡¨ candid, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, equal, equitable, even-handed, even-steven, fair-minded, fence-sitting, impersonal, just, neutral, nondiscriminating, nondiscriminatory, nonpartisan, objective, open-minded, unbiased, unbigoted, uncolored, unprejudiced, unslanted, without favor autonomous, bourgeois, common, communal, constitutional, egalitarian, equal, free, friendly, individualistic, informal, just, laissez-faire, libertarian, orderly, popular, populist, self-governing, self-ruling The Court noted that "benevolent neutrality" toward churches and religions was "deeply embedded in the fabric of our national life." Walz v.
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