Hugo Black Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

  Hugo Black

  Men, Rights, Bills

  "The Bill of Rights,"NewYork University Law Review, Apr. 1960

• The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

  Hugo Black

  Self, Lasting Happiness, Purpose

• In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.

  Hugo Black

  Rights, Law, Practice

• In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspaper should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

  Hugo Black

  New York, Father, Views

  "Supreme Court, 6-3, Upholds Newspapers on Publication of Pentagon Report". archive.nytimes.com. July 1, 1971.

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