George Sutherland Quotes
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard
George Sutherland, 1862-1942, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365, 388, 1926
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He was describing his first face to face encounter with Southern Negro slaves. He was totally shocked as the Negroes he had seen before were mostly free Blacks in the North-—many of whom were educated and cultured. He became an even more avowed abolitionist but like most anti-slavery whites at the time did not see the majority of Blacks as equal. See Abraham Lincoln: {587773}.
Many people mistakenly believe that this was the first political use of the “iron curtain” phrase—in German, “eiserner vorhang.” However, George Washington Crile used the phrase in 1915 {598870}. It is not known whether Geobbels knew of Crile’s work, or if Winston Churchill in his famous speech {411311} was familiar with either Crille’s or Goebbels use.
This intense depiction of the Chechen attitude towards the Russian was the kind of searing, description of reality that Tolstoy could do better than most writers in history. However it shows us that the Russian / Chechen conflict is much more than a current feud. It has existed for generations to have produced the reality which Tolstoy depicted in 1904. It also explains, in part, why, despite Western urgings, it has been very hard to initiate meaningful dialogue and negotiations between the Russians and the Chechens. Things are so personal, it is hard to get anyone who is interested in negotiating anything.
This work was a text book to instruct clerics on how to be proper Inquisitors. The authors specialized in witchcraft and sorcery and not heresy in general.
This commission was the intellectual forerunner of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and McCarthyism. Metternich called a conference of the heads of all the German states to deal with what they perceived as a dangerous liberalism enveloping German society. Metternich did not personally draft all the resolutions but he controlled the conclave and all the resolutions which are usually ascribed to him.
He was not correct that all sects and nations have agreed that slavery is desirable. The Jews escaping from Egypt, the early American and British religious sects that were strong abolitionists were examples. However, there were relatively few exceptions and generally, the Sultan had it right.
George Alexander Sutherland was an English-born U.S. jurist and politician. One of four appointments to the Supreme Court by President Warren G. Harding, he served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court between 1922 and 1938. As a member of the Republican Party, he also represented Utah in both houses of Congress.
