Sam Ervin
Sam Ervin
Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A native of Morganton, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer," and often told humorous stories in his Southern drawl. During his Senate career, Ervin was a legal defender of the Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, as the South's constitutional expert during the congressional debates on civil rights. Unexpectedly, he became a liberal hero for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 September 1896
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes. Every American has the constitutional right not to be taxed or have his tax money expended for the establishment of religion. For too long the issue of government aid to church related organizations has been a divisive force in our society and in the Congress. It has erected communication barriers among our religions and fostered intolerance.
I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.
Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
I'm not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege; it is poppycock.