It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
“One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though… — George Sutherland Copy Share
The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by… — George Sutherland Copy Share
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I… — George Sutherland Copy Share
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard. — George Sutherland Copy Share
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to… — George Sutherland Copy Share
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which… — George Sutherland Copy Share
It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual… — George Sutherland Copy Share
A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to… — George Sutherland Copy Share
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. — George Sutherland Copy Share
Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment.… — George Sutherland Copy Share
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to… — George Sutherland Copy Share
To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To… — George Sutherland Copy Share
