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Hugo Black Quotes

Best Quotes by Hugo Black (Top 7)

  1. A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
  2. 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.
  3. The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
  4. When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
  5. Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
  6. The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
  7. It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.