Robert H. Jackson Quotes

When the [Supreme] Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. - Robert H. Jackson

We start down a rough road when we begin to mix compulsory public education with compulsory godliness. - Robert H. Jackson

We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. - Robert H. Jackson

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. - Robert H. Jackson

We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final. - Robert H. Jackson

The validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores. - Robert H. Jackson

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. - Robert H. Jackson

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

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. - Robert H. Jackson

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