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FOUNDED 1962

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  • “It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not their servants in office.”

    Majority Rule and the Judiciary
    July 1, 1912

    July 17, 2012

  • “It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty and intelligence.”

    Review of Reviews
    January 1897

    July 10, 2012

  • “So we come here together on the Fourth of July to see what a great people we are; to see how well the generations of our dead have done their duty.”

    Huntington, New York
    July 4, 1903

    July 3, 2012

  • “In the ordinary and low sense which we attach to the words ‘partisan’ and ‘politician,’ a judge of the Supreme Court should be neither.”

    Letter to Henry Cabot Lodge
    July 10, 1902

    June 26, 2012

  • “The only effective way to help any man is to help him to help himself; and the worst lesson to teach him is that he can be permanently helped at the expense of someone else.”

    Oxford University
    June 7, 1910

    June 19, 2012

  • “When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.”

    Chicago, Illinois
    September 3, 1900

    June 12, 2012

  • “An epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character does not good, but very great harm.”

    Washington, DC
    April 14, 1906

    June 5, 2012

  • “Viewed from any angle, ignorance is the costliest crop that can be raised in any part of this Union.”

    Tuskegee, Alabama
    October 24, 1905

    May 29, 2012

  • “We cannot do great deeds unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.”

    New York, New York
    May 30, 1899

    May 22, 2012

  • “The point to be aimed at is the protection of the individual against wrong, not the attempt to limit and hamper the acquisition and output of wealth.”

    Annual Message as Governor
    Albany, New York, January 3, 1900

    May 15, 2012

  • “If a party raises an issue which it knows is a false issue, merely for the hope of carrying an election, then that party shows in the most striking way that it is the enemy of the country and unfit to be entrusted with its government.”

    Akron, Ohio
    September 23, 1899

    May 8, 2012

  • “A war is primarily won by soldiers; the work of the non-soldiers, however valuable, is merely accessory to the primary work of the fighting men.”

    Metropolitan
    September 1917

    May 1, 2012

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