Robert Jackson Quotes

We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.
Robert Jackson

Final, Infallible

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.
Robert Jackson

Freedom, Heart, Matter

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Robert Jackson

Find, Opinion, Themselves

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.
Robert Jackson

Religion, Politics, Opinion

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
Robert Jackson

Best, Government, Country

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.
Robert Jackson

Government, Keep, Falling

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Robert Jackson

Money, Men, Often

Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.
Robert Jackson

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
Robert Jackson

Religion, Country, Free

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.
Robert Jackson

Problem, Avoid, Drawn

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.
Robert Jackson

Growing, Grow, Places

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.
Robert Jackson

Patriotism, Free, Minds

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
Robert Jackson

Liberty, Afford, Liberties

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.
Robert Jackson

High, Opinions, Books

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Statesman

Born: February 13, 1892

Died: October 9, 1954

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