Robert H. Jackson Quotes

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• It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the…
• Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
• Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its…
• A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.
• The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and…
• The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that…
• There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is…
• The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of…
• Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
• The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.
• To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate…
• That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment…
• The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men…
• The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a…
• Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.
• The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we…
• We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal…
• While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be…
• We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
• The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

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