Hugo Black Quotes

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

Hugo Black

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• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Law
  • Facts
  • Jury

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• At 8, I made a pact with God.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • God
  • Made
  • Pact

• It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Why
  • Job
  • High

• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• I steal from every movie ever made.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Made
  • Ever

• History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • Nature
  • Law

• I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Men
  • Law
  • Guilty

• Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at 'capitalism' because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Why
  • Law

• Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Law

• I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice - are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

  

  Al Gore
  • Power
  • Law
  • Decision

• What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolve of our brave men and women in law enforcement to improving policing, to embracing the 21st Century Task Force recommendations, and to continuing to have a dialogue that makes our country safer for all.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren't stupid, they're just bad.

  

  Jim Jordan
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Bad

• But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Mother
  • Law
  • Funeral

• We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

  

  Cofer Black
  • Law
  • Action

• The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

  

  Akiva ben Joseph
  • Law
  • Wisdom
  • Silence

• Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Sports

• Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Law
  • Stop
  • September

• Real heroes don't wear capes. Real superheroes wear uniforms and badges and stethoscopes! Real superheroes are members of our military, law enforcement, and first responders. Pretend superheroes wear capes!

  

  Dean Cain
  • Real
  • Law
  • Military

• Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Truth

• Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Waiting

• It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness: It is a fatal mistake to think of holiness as a possession which we have distinct from our faith... Faith is the very highest form of our dependence on God.

  

  Richard Lovelace
  • Children
  • Acceptance
  • Plenty

• Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

  

  Hugo Black
  • Law
  • Made
  • Protect