There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

- Sam Ervin

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

- Sam Ervin

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

- Sam Ervin

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people.

- Sam Ervin

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

- Sam Ervin

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

- Sam Ervin

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

- Sam Ervin

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

- Sam Ervin

Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, becau…

- Sam Ervin