Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1077
AUTHOR:
George Sutherland (1862–1942)
QUOTATION:
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.
ATTRIBUTION:
Justice GEORGE SUTHERLAND, dissenting, Associated Press v. National Labor Relations Board, 301 U.S. 141 (1938).
