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No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| by William O. Douglas |
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A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.- Dean Kamen
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.
