George Sutherland

“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.”

“The general rule is that both parties to a contract are bound by its terms.”

“The right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life...is an essential part of the liberty protected by the Due Process Clause.”

“A statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law.”

“The right of the accused, in a capital case, to have the aid of counsel for his defense... is of a fundamental character.”

“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.”

“If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.”

“Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.”

“While the question of the constitutionality of the statute is not free from difficulty, the doubt must be resolved in favor of the right of the state to exercise its police power.”

“The framers of the Constitution were not visionaries, but practical men, dealing with the facts of political life as they understood them.”

“The fundamental purpose of the constitutional guaranty of a free press is to protect the public and not the press.”

“A policeman's sworn duty is to detect and arrest criminals, not to aid and abet them in the commission of crime.”