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Robert Jackson

8 quotes in 36 categories

[Wikipedia] Robert Houghwout Jackson was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in 1954. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, and is the only person to have held

Quotes by Robert Jackson

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of…

Appeal

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

Country

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

Could

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

Because

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“British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war…

War

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

Carbon

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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall…

Nationalism

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

Best

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