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Harlan F. Stone
11 quotes
“Thus viewed, law as it exists in the modern community may be conveniently, although perhaps not comprehensively, defined as the sum total of all those rules of conduct for which there is state sanction.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Law and its Administration (1915), p. 3.
“Just what instrumentalities of either a state or the federal government are exempt from taxation by the other cannot be stated in terms of universal application.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell, 269 U.S. 514., 522 (1926).
“To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tyson and Brother v. Banton, 273 U.S. 418, 451 (1927).
“There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Morehead v. N.Y. ex rel. Tipaldo, 298 U.S. 587, 632 (1936).
“History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940).
“The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586, 604 (1940).
“The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: United States v. Darby Lumber Company, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941).
“Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, 316 (1941).
“The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, 318 (1941).
“Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, 100 (1943).
“Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Alpheus Thomas Mason, Harlan Fiske Stone, Pillar of the Law (1956), p. 95.