Sunday, February 23, 2014

Liberty Quotes - Henry David Thoreau, Justice Tom C. Clark, Justice William O. Douglas

"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. "
-- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.David.Thoreau.Quote.F071


"Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence."
-- Justice Tom C. Clark
(1899-1977) US Attorney General, 1945-1949, Associate Justice of theSupreme Court of the United States, 1949-1967
Source: delivering the opinion of the Court in MAPP v. OHIO, 367 U.S. 643 (1961)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Tom.C..Clark.Quote.9BDA


"When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all."
-- Justice William O. Douglas
(1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.O..Douglas.Quote.2BDA


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