A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. |
America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves. |
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. |
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution. |
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. |
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time... |
Military glory -- the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. |
Nearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man's character, give him power. |
The people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who
would pervert it! |
The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shephard as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. |
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. |
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. |
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest. |
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. |
Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. |
I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it. |
The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow. |
What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say. |
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. |
[I]f the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. |
