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Robert H. Jackson

Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was an American attorney and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General, and United States Attorney General, and is the only person to have held all three of those offices. Jackson was also notable for his work as the Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals following World War II.

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

Final, Honor, Infallible, Justice, Law

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.

Country, Religious, Government, Zealots, Political, Divinely

But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.

Man, Men, Rebuffed, Said, Self, Taken

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

Formal, Foundation, May, Structure, Teaching

The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact.

Bill, Bills, Rights, Suicide

Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.

Clearly, Democracy, People, Says, Theories, Thinking

I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

Conviction, Country, Government, National, Police, Totalitarian

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.

Comfort, Gets, Inspiration, Jest, Men, Scorn

Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.

Government, Jealousy, Limited, Power, Rights, Strong

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 property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections.

Rights, Political, Liberty, Subjects, Submitted

Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

Cases, Intelligent, Liberty, Opinion, Support

The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.

Constitutional, Doctrine, Doe, Tax, Test, Use

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 in some respects, often father monopoly.

Creating, Father, Forbidden, Law, Patent

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

Country, Day, Free, Political, Sect, Winning

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 who possess themselves of great power.

Men, Law, People, Reach, Possess

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 attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the Stateas those we deal with here, the prices is not too great. But 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 substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

Attitude, Heart, Mere, Occasional, Order

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

Judges, Judging, Juries, Matter, Would Be

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

Dancing, Justice, Nimbly, Parties, Party, Positions

The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.

Citizens, Crime, Duty, Rests, Knowledge, Disclose

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

Avoid, Charybdis, Drawn, Problem, Scylla

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