Home / Quotes / Quote by Mark Steyn

Quote by Mark Steyn

“We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.”

Author

Mark Steyn is a Canadian writer and columnist known for his sharp commentary on political, cultural, and social issues. His work often addresses conservative topics and has a wide readership around the world. more

“In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.”

“The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.”

Way Ideas Combat Falsehood

Author:William O. Douglas

“Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.”

May States Prove Mouths Evidence Guilt Accused Coercion Prove It Secured

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.”

Purpose Principles Achieve Punishment Inherent Severe Pointless Clauses Infliction

Author:William J. Brennan

“The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.”

Men Ends Rights Dignity Quests

Author:William J. Brennan

“If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.”

Ifs Doe States Certain United United States Crime Willing Lays Prepared Criminals Germany Violation Treaties

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.”

Constitution Remembered Unreasonable Seizures Unreasonable Searches Unreasonable Search And Seizures

Author:Potter Stewart

“Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.”

Way Blood Battle Ancient Trials Contests

Author:Warren E. Burger

“There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.”

Prayer Practice Doubt Opening No Doubt Our Society Fabric Session

Author:Warren E. Burger

“My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.”

Ends Noses Swings Fists

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Quote by Mark Steyn

Author

You May Also Like