Robert Jackson Quotes

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.
The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

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Robert Jackson
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Statesman
BirthDate
13 February, 1892
DeathDate
09 October, 1954
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