George Sutherland quotes

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. (George Sutherland)
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. View quote
George Sutherland
A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves. View quote
George Sutherland
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard. View quote
George Sutherland
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do. View quote
George Sutherland
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time. View quote
George Sutherland
The liberty of the individual to do as he pleases, even in innocent matters, is not absolute. It must frequently yield to the common good. View quote
George Sutherland
Since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgement of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern. View quote
George Sutherland
It is impossible to concede that, by the words "freedom of the press," the framers of the amendment intended to adopt merely the narrow view then reflected by the law of England that such freedom consisted only in immunity from previous censorship, for this abuse had then permanently disappeared from English practice. It is equally impossible to believe that it was not intended to bring within the reach of these words such modes of restraint as were embodied in the two forms of taxation already described. View quote
George Sutherland
The tax here involved is bad not because it takes money from the pockets of the appellees. If that were all, a wholly different question would be presented. It is bad because, in the light of its history and of its present setting, it is seen to be a deliberate and calculated device in the guise of a tax to limit the circulation of information to which the public is entitled in virtue of the constitutional guaranties. View quote
George Sutherland