The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and ed…

- George Sutherland

To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him …

- George Sutherland

It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has th…

- 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, …

- George Sutherland

Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroac…

- George Sutherland

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- George Sutherland