Quotes by Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States of the Authors - Page 8

Grid View List View
Quote of the DayPicture QuotesTop 100 Inspirational QuotesTop 100 Love QuotesTop 100 Happiness Quotes
Will RogersYogi BerraGroucho MarxKanye WestJoe BidenBilly GrahamEpictetusPlatoZig ZiglarNelson Mandela
TechnologyQuiltsCuteDeathDreamI Love YouAnchormanAloneArchitectureGraduation

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

Share This Page