
“Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.”
Quoted in his obituary in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1218.html
“Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.”
Quoted in his obituary in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1218.html
The American Leviathan: The Republic in the Machine Age (1931) co-written with William Beard, p. 39
Context: If this statement by Judge Cooley is true, and the authority for it is unimpeachable, then the theory that the Constitution is a written document is a legal fiction. The idea that it can be understood by a study of its language and the history of its past development is equally mythical. It is what the Government and the people who count in public affairs recognize and respect as such, what they think it is. More than this. It is not merely what it has been, or what it is today. It is always becoming something else and those who criticize it and the acts done under it, as well as those who praise, help to make it what it will be tomorrow.
“We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.”
Source: Les Misérables
Mor al llit, impunement, Manuel Fraga, icona del franquisme i responsable dels assassinats de Gasteiz, 16th January 2012, Setmanari La Directa, 16th January 2012, catalan http://www.setmanaridirecta.info/noticia/noticia-fraga,
Gasteiz Facts
“ [30:02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOlg_2qAbUA Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion]” (2014)