Laurence Tribe Quotes

born 1941 United States

Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is an American constitutional law scholar, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the Harvard Law School, and co-founder of the American Constitution Society.

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Nothing is more devastating than a life without liberty.

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)

So they wanted a general term that would refer to profound abuses of power that threaten the rule of law.

Laurence Tribe on To End a Presidency (2018)

"The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny of disparage others retained by the people."

The Invisible Constitution (2008)

So the framers of the constitution struck a balance and left the judgement to us.

Laurence Tribe on To End a Presidency (2018)

My interest is less in what's invisible "around" the Constitution than in what is invisible within it.

The Invisible Constitution (2008)

There are as many reasons to be silent as there are to speak, and as many ways to hear meaning in the sounds of silence.

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Impeachment haunts Trumpland... Never before has an American leader so quickly faced such credible, widespread calls for his removal...

To End a Presidency (2018)

Every sentence, every phrase, is in part silent with respect to how a reader or listener is to go about attributing meaning to it...

Soundings and Silences (2016)

The state shapes the society as much as the society shapes the state...

Constitutional Choices (1985)

Warring partisan tribes now define a dysfunctional system...

To End a Presidency (2018)

Impeachment requires good judgment amid uncertainty, not a preprinted checklist of relevant considerations...

To End a Presidency (2018)

The question whether individuals may insist on being heard by rulemakers, for whom they already (directly or indirectly) voted, has bedeviled administrative law since the turn of the century.

Constitutional Choices (1985)

This book challenges the inevitability of permanent conflict... and tries to lay the groundwork for moving on.

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)

If the legislature would punish, it must enlist... the other branches—the executive to prosecute, the judicial to try and convict.

American Constitutional Law (1978)

"[C]onstitutional silence"... pervades all of constitutional law.

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Who knows the names of the countless women who have died from painful and illegal abortions? What of the names of the countless babies who would have been born...

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)

So the written Constitution, the one we can see, fails to tell us just what's in it and what's not.

The Invisible Constitution (2008)

While "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" was a term of art dating to 1386, and had thus accumulated centuries of intellectual baggage, there's no reason to think the Framers had all that in mind.

To End a Presidency (2018)

Now the country is faced with a president whose conduct strongly suggests that he poses a danger to our system of government. ...[I]mpeachable offenses could theoretically have been charged from the outset of this presidency.

Americans have moved into ideological echo chambers... everything they read or hear reinforces their predispositions and makes them more intolerant of opposing views...

To End a Presidency (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Laurence Tribe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.