Quotes of Hugo Black - somelinesforyou

“ The United States has a system of taxation by confession. ”

- Hugo Black

“ Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. ”

- Hugo Black

“ I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. ”

- Hugo Black

“ A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. ”

- Hugo Black

“ The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. ”

- Hugo Black

“ Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. ”

- Hugo Black

“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”

- Hugo Black

“ In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. ”

- Hugo Black

“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”

- Hugo Black

“ Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. ”

- Hugo Black

“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”

- Hugo Black

“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”

- Hugo Black

“ Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ”

- Hugo Black

“ Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ”

- Hugo Black

“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”

- Hugo Black

“ Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ”

- Hugo Black

“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”

- Hugo Black

“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”

- Hugo Black

“ A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. ”

- Hugo Black

“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”

- Hugo Black

“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”

- Hugo Black

“ The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. ”

- Hugo Black

“ I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. ”

- Hugo Black

“ In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. ”

- Hugo Black

“ The United States has a system of taxation by confession. ”

- Hugo Black

“ I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. ”

- Hugo Black

“ It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ”

- Hugo Black

“ In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. ”

- Hugo Black

“ It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ”

- Hugo Black

“ The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. ”

- Hugo Black
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