Hugo Black Quotes

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Hugo Black

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• Constitution
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• The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Live
  • Commitment

• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reason
  • Cause
  • Justification

• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Idea
  • Wind
  • My Own

• Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Fall
  • Mean
  • Failure

• I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

  

  Imogene Coca
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Comedy

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Hand

• 'Our savior will resurrect us,' said Peggy, 'but I haven’t noticed that Christians end up any less dead at the end of life than heathens.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Up

• Music is a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind

• Rhetoric that vilifies American Muslims is counter to our efforts. It's a setback to our Homeland Security efforts.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • American

• I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't play that music. I will lose my job.' Well, lose the job and create a new job. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

  

  Patti Smith
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Job

• I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Good
  • Work

• I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to actors, actually; some of the best directors don't.

  

  Martin Donovan

• You don't just go to your bosses and say, 'This sucks. I'm supposed to be winning everything.' If you have an awesome idea or a story, or something great, you go, 'Hey, how about we do this,' but when the story is not you, you have to find a way to make it work.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Work
  • Great
  • Winning

• I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd

• So much wealth and so much power, Armstrong thought, yet with a little luck, we can bring you down like Humpty-Dumpty...

  

  James Clavell
  • Power
  • Luck

• Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

  

  Plutarch

• You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Friends
  • Religion
  • Enemies

• When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Remember
  • Wind
  • Jump

• When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

  

  Jane Austen
  • World
  • Sorrow
  • Wickedness

• Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Space
  • Attitude

• The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Revolution
  • Friendship
  • Constitution