Abandoned Quote by George Sutherland
“If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.”
“If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.”
![“One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail." [Justice George Sutherland, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case]” quote by George Sutherland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc9/george-sutherland-37935_law_one-who-does-a-thing-in-order-to-avoid-a_77961.jpg)
![“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. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for…” quote by George Sutherland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/755/george-sutherland-37935_amendments_do-the-people-of-this-land-desire-to-pre_2661943.jpg)
