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

~Robert Jackson

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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.

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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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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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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.

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We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Statesman

Born: February 13th, 1892

Died: October 9th, 1954

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