First world war Quote by Robert H. Jackson

““There was a time, in fact, I think the time of the first World War, when it could not have been said that war-inciting or war making was a crime in law, however reprehensible in morals. Of course, it was, under the law of all civilized peoples, a crime for one man with his bare knuckles to assault another. How did it come that multiplying this crime by a million, and adding fire arms to bare knuckles, made it a legally innocent act?””

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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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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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“Father was always getting into scrapes when he was a lad. But the worst scrape he ever hot hisself into was the war, First World War. And just like with the swallow’s eggs, he didn’t want to fight anyone. It just happened. This time it was all on account of the horse. See, he didn’t go off to the war…

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