George Sutherland

George Sutherland (1862-1942) was a U.S. Supreme Court justice. He was appointed by President Harding (R) in 1922 and served until his retirement in 1938. He had previously represented Utah in the U.S. Congress.

If the Constitution, intelligently and reasonably construed, stands in the way of desirable legislation, the blame must rest upon that instrument, and not upon the court for enforcing it according to its terms. The remedy in that situation—and the only true remedy—is to amend the Constitution.

Dissent, West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.

Jonathan Rauch

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Michael Crichton

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

But he who lives a hundred years, vicious and unrestrained, a life of one day is better if a man is virtuous and reflecting.

Siddhartha Gautama

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

George Washington

The frauds of this world always have an advantage, but if you are alert to the influence of money, you can spot them more easily.

Scott Adams

No theory of the state, whether socialistic or capitalistic, is valid, which makes it master, not servant, of man.

Norman Thomas

When the people are weak the state is strong; when the state is weak the people are strong.

Shang Yang

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Patrick Henry

If you constantly accuse those you disagree with of bigotry, chances are that you, not them, are the bigot.

Scott Bradford

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Martin Rees

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Maya Angelou

‘Thy will be done’ is the essential prayer of the saint; ‘my will be done’ is the essential demand of the sinner.

Peter Kreeft

Life’s most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.

Mignon McLaughlin

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Mignon McLaughlin

I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things. . . . They came from the heart of a great nation—from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries.

Ronald Reagan

There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

Ayn Rand

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

George Mason

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

Robert A. Heinlein

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