Robert Jackson Quotes

#1. Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.

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#2. It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

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

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

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#5. Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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 substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

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#9. The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

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#10. We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

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#11. 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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#12. The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

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