Harlan F. Stone Quotes

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.