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George Sutherland
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Quotes by George Sutherland
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The customer gets to budget as they go around, and the second thing is they have a much faster and more convenient shop.
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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.
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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.
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A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time
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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.
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If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
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