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2014 February 21
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"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt." |
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." |
"The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight." |
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2014 February 20
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"In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." |
"Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies,
but let wasps and hornets break through." |
"When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff." |
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2014 February 19
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"Facts are stubborn things;
and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations,
or the dictates of our passion,
they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." |
"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." |
"Law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning,
exclusively used in courts of justice,
but good for nothing anywhere else." |
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2014 February 18
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"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority." |
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." |
"The ideal form of government is democracy
tempered with assassination." |
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2014 February 17
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"All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers
round the external trappings of elevated office.
To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected
from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity." |
"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position." |
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty,
and the destiny of the republican model of government,
are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally,
staked on the experiment entrusted to
the hands of the American people." |
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