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 SutherlandThey 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 SutherlandTo 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 SutherlandA 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 SutherlandDo the people of this landโฆdesire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendmentโฆ 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 a saving hand while yet there was time.
George Sutherland