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Robert Jackson

American Statesman

Born: Feb 13, 1892

Died: Oct 9, 1954

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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. Robert Jackson

Government Citizen Falling Error Function Keep

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. Robert Jackson

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

Final Only Because Infallible

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

Dissent Those Unanimity Find Only Compulsory Soon Opinion Begin Achieves Unification Themselves Who Coercive Graveyard Elimination

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

Money Men Ambition More Than Often Bribed Loyalties

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

Could Know Doing Years Years Ago Even Things

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