Edward Livingston Quotations

There is a definite cost to doing nothing,

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

I think you have to take these numbers with a grain of salt, ... What this all means is really very hard to determine.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.