Robert H. Jackson Short Quotes

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

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The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

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But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

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Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

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

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Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes that are committed in its name.

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But when notice is a person's due, process which is a mere gesture is not 'due process.'

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It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

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The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation, than any other person in America.

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We granted certiorari, and in this Court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

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While the Declaration was directed against an excess of authority, the Constitution was directed against anarchy.

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The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact — constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.

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He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

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The office of the lawyer, however poorly filled, is too delicate, personal and confidential to be occupied by a corporation.

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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.

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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.

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A confession is wholly and incontestably voluntary only if a guilty person gives himself up to the law and becomes his own accuser.

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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, a good deal of rubbish.

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Symbolism is a primitive but effective way of communicating ideas. The use of an emblem or flag... is a short cut from mind to mind.

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[To fanatics and extremists] all thought is divinely classified into two kinds — that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.

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For a century every contest with the Supreme Court has ended in evading the basic inconsistency between popular government and judicial supremacy.

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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 logic to judges.

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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.

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I always feel that there should be some comfort derived from any question from the bench. It is clear proof that the inquiring Justice is not asleep.

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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.

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It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.

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This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.

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There is no such thing as an achieved liberty; like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.

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I am entitled to say of that opinion what any discriminating reader must think of it — that it was as foggy as the statute the Attorney General was asked to interpret.

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No penance would ever expiate the sin against free government of holding that a President can escape control of executive powers by law through assuming his military role.

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