Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. — H. L. Mencken Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. — Orson Welles Unnecessary laws are but traps for money. — Thomas Hobbes It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. [...]
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. — Walter Lippman If there is any principle of the Constitution [...]
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion … In a free society these institutions must be wholly free — which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state. — Alan Barth The Constitution is not neutral. It was [...]
