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Robert Jackson [1892-1954] American

Rank: 102
Statesman

Quote	Tags	Rank
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.	Religion	101
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.	Politics, Religion	102
We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.		103
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.	Patriotism	104
The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.		105
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.		106
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. 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.		107
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.		108
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.		109
It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.		110
The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.		111
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.		112
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.		113
Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.		114

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