The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
About George Sutherland
George Alexander Sutherlandwas an English-born American jurist and politician. He served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court between 1922 and 1938.
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The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Representatives (1862-1942)
They say the average person can’t make a living in art… but if you tell me there’s something I can’t do, that’s what I have to do.
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Representatives (1862-1942)
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Representatives (1862-1942)
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Representatives (1862-1942)