"It is a mistake to suppose that the……" — David Josiah Brewer
"It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the contrary, the life and character of its justices should be the objects of constant watchfulness by all, and its judgments subject to the freest criticism."
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David Josiah Brewer
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13 Quotes by David Josiah Brewer
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Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates…
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Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury…
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The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable…
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The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything…
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Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to…
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I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss…
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It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place…
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What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more…
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Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated…
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He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop…
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The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good…
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A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of…
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