George Sutherland Quotes

United States, Politician
March 25, 1862 – July, 18, 1942.

George Alexander Sutherland was an English-born U.S. jurist and politician. One of four appointments to the Supreme Court by President Warren G. Harding, he served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court between 1922 and 1938. As a member of the Republican Party, he also represented Utah in both houses of Congress.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

George Sutherland
The liberty of the individual to do as he pleases, even in innocent matters, is not absolute. It must frequently yield to the common good.

George Sutherland

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

George Sutherland
- Law
- Taxes
- Doubted
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 what I have to do.

George Sutherland
- Art
- Living
- Make
To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.

George Sutherland
- Life
- Liberty
- Property
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

George Sutherland
A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

George Sutherland
- People
- Government
- Press