Erwin Griswold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.
-- Erwin Griswold

#Death #Believe #Two
The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
-- Erwin Griswold

#Rights #Principles #Bills
Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.
-- Erwin Griswold

#Strong #Gun #Law
The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm ... a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.
-- Erwin Griswold

#Struggle #Men #Rocks

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.
They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

Erwin Griswold famous quotes

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