26 Quotes by Sam Ervin

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people.

The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity.

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.