Robert H. Jackson Quotes

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.

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds-that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

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

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

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

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

We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

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.