Invention Quotes

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

On this day, when we’re celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage – to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it’s a good idea.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.