It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what wor...ds meant, and meant their prohibitions to be "absolute."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is ...a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave ...case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner's claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, 'A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life ... [which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten yea...rs and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just gov...ernment should refuse, or rest on inference.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is a Bill of Rights a security for [religious liberty]? If there were but one sect in America, a Bill of Rights would be a small p...rotection for liberty.... Freedom derives from a multiplicity of sects, which pervade America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His hope is treacherous only whose love dies With beauty, which is varying every hour;... But, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power Of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, That breathes on earth the air of paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of s...uch far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »