Robert Jackson
Robert Jackson
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was also the 57th U.S. Attorney General.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth13 February 1892
CitySpring Creek, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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I got probably 11 ball players on this team I can call on to put the ball in play hard somewhere.
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The guy is brilliant. He's a total coach. Whatever he does, he does 100 percent.
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If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure.
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It raises awareness of the needs of the library. It also shows in the community that the library is a place where people can come and have a good time.
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People take liberties and one thing leads to another,
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In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.
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We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.
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We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.
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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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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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The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.
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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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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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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.