https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:51:57 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/sutherland-george/41193/ https://wist.info/sutherland-george/41193/#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:30:50 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=41193 Arbitrary power and the rule of the Constitution cannot both exist. They are antagonistic and incompatible forces; and one or the other must of necessity perish whenever they are brought in conflict.

George Sutherland (1862–1942) Anglo-American jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1922–1938)
Jones v. Securities & Exchange Commission 298 U.S. 1 (1936) [majority opinion]
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/sutherland-george/41193/feed/ 0 41193 https://wist.info/dumas-alexandre-pere/34564/ https://wist.info/dumas-alexandre-pere/34564/#respond Fri, 22 Jul 2016 04:32:13 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34564 The custom and fashion of to-day will be the awkwardness and outrage of to-morrow. So arbitrary are these transient laws.

Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870) French novelist and dramatist
(Attributed)

Quoted in James Comper Gray, The Biblical Museum: Old Testament, vol. 3 (1878 ed.). ]]> https://wist.info/dumas-alexandre-pere/34564/feed/ 0 34564