Authority Quote by Robert H. Jackson

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“Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.”

Robert H. Jackson

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Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

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Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.

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“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 seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory…

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Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold…

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The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for,…

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Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable…

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I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought,…

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Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before…

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