Charles Evans
Charles Evans
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judging liberty constitution
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
home government lessons
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
taken winning opportunity
Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.
country people body
The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles.
judging constitution judiciary
The Constitution is what the judges say it is.
numbers law opinion
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
selfish opportunity government
Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.
opportunity rights order
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.
freedom liberty libertarian
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.
law icy principles
When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
law another-day spirit
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
light government liberty
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.
law world united-states
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
country publicity public-opinion
Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation