Sam Ervin Quotes

#1. Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law.

Scott Turow

#2. A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

Sam Ervin

#3. We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Townsend Harris

#4. The truth can be known or realized but cannot be change or modify.

Roshan Sharma

#5. I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion
and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Ram Dass

#6. Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

Jason Bateman

#7. Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

Sam Ervin

#8. Cutest geek i ever saw.

Steven Key Meyers

#9. I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

Sam Ervin

#10. The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Sam Ervin

#11. Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

Sam Ervin

#12. Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Sam Ervin

#13. Inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Eckhart Tolle

#14. I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

Sam Ervin

#15. Football was just the playing I enjoyed at first, but the longer you're playing the more it becomes a social event. You meet new people and make new friends. I still know some of the people I played with when I was 11-years-old, which is nice.

Hope Powell

#16. If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system.

Sam Ervin

#17. Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

Sam Ervin

#18. The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Sam Ervin

#20. The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional.

Sam Ervin

#21. We blasted holes in the night until she bled sunshine

Mos Def

#22. You will never succeed until you want to as bad as one wants to breathe.

Unanimous

#23. By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.

Chris Prentiss

#24. If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

Sam Ervin

#25. Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women
can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an
inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those
storms with hope and serenity.

Sam Ervin

#26. Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

Sam Ervin

#27. I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

Sam Ervin

#28. A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

Sam Ervin

#29. When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

Sam Ervin

#30. Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

Sam Ervin