George Sutherland Professions : Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Born : March 25, 1862 Died : July 18, 1942 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by George Sutherland A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves. George Sutherland fetters government people To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave. George Sutherland liberty giving men It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty is to still leave him a slave. George Sutherland rights giving men If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. George Sutherland constitution comfort may A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard. George Sutherland nuisance may pigs The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law. George Sutherland intelligent skills law The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. George Sutherland would-be law mean Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time. George Sutherland land memories hands They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do. George Sutherland persons average art For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. George Sutherland memory freedom lost time Similar Authors Benjamin Robbins Curtis former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Byron White former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Arthur Goldberg former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Benjamin Cardozo former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states Abe Fortas former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states David Souter former-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states All Authors
