Wish I Said That 

     Following up on Justice Frankfurter's warning (see yesterday's blog), here are more quotes from our nation's history. Can you guess who said what? 

1. A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Science is my passion, politics my duty.

2. Let the human mind loose. It must be loosed. It will be loose. Superstition and despotism cannot confine it.

3. On the War of 1812, I flung forward the flag of the country, sure that people would press onward and defend it.

4. The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

5. Our Constitution is in actual operation. Everything appears to promise that it will last. But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. 

6. Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is a force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. 

7. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. 

8. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. 

9. The Constitution is color blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

10. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary...to say what the law is. We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding ...intended for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.

1. Thomas Jefferson   2. John Adams   3. James Madison   4. Alexander Hamilton          5. Ben Franklin   6. George Washington   7. Ben Franklin   8. Abe Lincoln,                    9. Justice John Marshall   10. Chief Justice John Marshall