Wiley Blount Rutledge quotes

Wiley Blount Rutledge quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.”
-- Wiley Blount Rutledge

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“It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the first Article's assurance.”
-- Wiley Blount Rutledge

Source : "Thomas v. Collins, 323 U.S. 516". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 8, 1945.

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“The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.”

Source : 'Uncommon Law' (1935) 'The Reasonable Man'
“A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.”

Source : Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50
“After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.”
“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.”

Source : Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2
“My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.”
“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”
“Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.”
“I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.”

Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.”

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