Harlan F. Stone Professions : Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Born : October 11, 1872 Died : April 22, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by Harlan F. Stone Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority. Harlan F. Stone minorities democracy creative The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided. Harlan F. Stone causes trials law If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law. Harlan F. Stone offending rights law Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. Harlan F. Stone doctrine equality people History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities. Harlan F. Stone minorities liberty names The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. Harlan F. Stone amendments states rights Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness. Harlan F. Stone constitution The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not. Harlan F. Stone election choices successful The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. Harlan F. Stone political government needs There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together. Harlan F. Stone soul together giving The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say... Harlan F. Stone essence opportunity thinking To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest. Harlan F. Stone interest may way 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
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