Speech and Scrap Book for SpeakersSpeakers' service bureau, 1924 - 304 pages |
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... Justice by President Harding . Thus a man was invested with the enor- mous prestige and influence of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Presidential appointment who had been repudiated by the voters of the United States on his ...
... Justice by President Harding . Thus a man was invested with the enor- mous prestige and influence of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Presidential appointment who had been repudiated by the voters of the United States on his ...
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No one will contend that he could have been elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by vote of the people . And yet made Chief Justice by presidential appointment , Mr. Taft wrote the opinion that annulled the Child Labor Law . He ...
No one will contend that he could have been elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by vote of the people . And yet made Chief Justice by presidential appointment , Mr. Taft wrote the opinion that annulled the Child Labor Law . He ...
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... Justice Clark of the Supreme Court of North Carolina has aptly said : " The courts have attempted only once in England to assert a right to set aside an act of Par- liament , and then Chief Justice Tresillian was hanged and his ...
... Justice Clark of the Supreme Court of North Carolina has aptly said : " The courts have attempted only once in England to assert a right to set aside an act of Par- liament , and then Chief Justice Tresillian was hanged and his ...
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... Justice Harlan , one of the wisest and most far - sighted men who ever sat upon the Supreme Court , said : " When the American people come to the conclusion that the judiciary of this land is usurping to itself the functions of the ...
... Justice Harlan , one of the wisest and most far - sighted men who ever sat upon the Supreme Court , said : " When the American people come to the conclusion that the judiciary of this land is usurping to itself the functions of the ...
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In my opinion , the time of which Justice Harlan spoke , is now at hand . I believe that the decisions of the Supreme Court and the injunctions of the lower Federal Courts , coming as they have as the culmination of a long train of ...
In my opinion , the time of which Justice Harlan spoke , is now at hand . I believe that the decisions of the Supreme Court and the injunctions of the lower Federal Courts , coming as they have as the culmination of a long train of ...
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Page 288 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 267 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious.
Page 248 - I HEARTILY accept the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Page 228 - My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of ' We, the people,' instead of ' We, the States ' ? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government, of the people of all the States.
Page 285 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 285 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you.
Page 286 - Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Page 54 - Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 267 - Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Page 300 - When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy : neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive ; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness: when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and its government.