Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Morris Ernst, fully Morris Leopold Ernst
American Lawyer and Co-founder of the Civil Liberties Union
"More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior."
"The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar."
"Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness."
"A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence."
"The Constitution does not guarantee objectivity of the press …. The question … is not whether news shall be unprejudiced but rather whose prejudices shall color the news. "