Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Hugo Black Quotes
«Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
blown, Judges, new constitution, sands, successive, washed, wash away, wave
«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.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Change,
Constitution,
Enemies,
Freedom,
Friends,
Liberty,
Revolution,
Speech,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
deadliest, framer, Framers, free speech
«The First Amendment was added to the Constitution to stand as a guarantee that neither the power nor the prestige of the Federal Government would be used to control, support or influence the kinds of prayer the American people can say - that the peop»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
added, amendment, Amendments, American Constitution, American government, American people, Federal, federal constitution, federal government, First Amendment, guarantee, prestige, The Federal
«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.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Happiness,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
aiming, be full, lasting, paradox
«Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
deceiving, fevers, Free Press, lands, Land of the Free, paramount, responsibilities, sending, send off, shell, The Paramount
«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.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
advised, carefully, heeded, heeds, reached, tennis
«The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
constitutional, layman, laymen, unconstitutional
«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.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Criticism,
Freedom,
Government,
Press,
Speech
| Keywords:
amendment, embraces, free speech, parts of speech, part of speech, portions, sanctuary
«The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have [to] bare the secrets of government and inform the people.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
Founding Fathers, Free Press, inform, Secrets of, the founding