KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Hugo Black Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Hugo Black

Showing 1-10 of 12 Quotes by Hugo Black

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.

~Hugo Black

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Hugo Black

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Hugo Black

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

~Hugo Black

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Hugo Black

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

~Hugo Black

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

~Hugo Black

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

~Hugo Black

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

~Hugo Black

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Hugo Black

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: February 27th, 1886

Died: September 25th, 1971

Links

Find Hugo Black on Amazon

Related Authors

Louis D. Brandeis
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia
Sonia Sotomayor
Clarence Thomas

Popular Authors

Samuel Adams Coco Chanel Galileo Galilei H. P. Lovecraft Jackie Robinson Henry Rollins William Shakespeare Voltaire

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anniversary Courage Diet Failure Freedom Imagination Sad Wisdom