Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-10-07 Oct 7, 2014[A]s the Courts are generally the last in making the decision, it results to them by refusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character. This makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended, and can never be proper.~ James MadisonFrankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.~ Ruth Bader GinsburgAt the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 6, 2014All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth. ~ Robert G. IngersollWe welcome almost any break in the monotony of things, a man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.~ Robert Wilson LyndIf you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack.~ Sir Winston Churchill Oct 3, 2014A people who mean to continue free must be prepared to meet danger in person; not rely upon the fallacious protection of mercenary armies.~ Edmund RandolphAn unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.~ Jeff CooperTo my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.~ Ted Nugent Oct 2, 2014Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.~ Irish ProverbCircumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.~ James AllenThe highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.~ John Ruskin Oct 1, 2014It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.~ Calvin CoolidgeHistory, in general, only informs us what bad government is.~ Thomas JeffersonFreedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.~ William Cowper Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print