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Hugo Black

b: Harlan, Alabama, Feb 27, 1886

d: Bethesda, Maryland, Sep 25, 1971

American. Supreme Court Justice. Member of Ku Klux Klan, mid-1920s; served on Supreme Court 34 years.

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I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.