George Sutherland

“One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same…

— George Sutherland

The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be…

— George Sutherland

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…

— George Sutherland

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the…

— George Sutherland

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors…

— George Sutherland

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by…

— George Sutherland

It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but…

— George Sutherland

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered…

— George Sutherland

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well…

— George Sutherland

Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings…

— George Sutherland

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors…

— George Sutherland

To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth…

— George Sutherland