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We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
Robert H. Jackson / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.
Robert H. Jackson / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Citizens
Crime
Duty
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The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.
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But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.
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Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
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Men
Ambition
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The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.
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Charybdis
Problem
Scylla
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In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.
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Dancing
Justice
Party
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One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.
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Election
Liberty
Outcomes
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We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.
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Honor
Justice
Law
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It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.
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Government
Due Process
Process
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I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.
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Today
Yesterday
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The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.
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Corporations
Lawyer
Office
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The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.
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Color
Irrelevance
Race
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Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
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Government
Censorship
Groups
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Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.
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Jobs
Today
Use
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Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.
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Gains
Liberty
Victory
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Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.
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May
Teaching
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.
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Men
Comfort
Inspiration
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The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.
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Inspirational
Religion
Freedom
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Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.
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Connections
Links
States
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The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.
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Majority
Political
Rights
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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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Quality
America
Book
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The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.
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Country
Political
Winning
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Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.
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Judging
Matter
Would Be
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It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.
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Doe
Needs
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This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.
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Forever
Law
Stories
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It is not the function of 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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Government
Errors
Fall
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There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.
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Electricity
Liberty
Storage
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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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Achieve
Liberty
Opinion
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While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.
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Creating
Father
Law
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The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.
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Men
Law
People
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There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.
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Bills
Rights
Suicide
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The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.
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Heritage
Liberty
Thinking
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I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.
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Government
Country
Police
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It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.
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Bills
Presidential
Records
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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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War
Honor
Ideas
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Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. 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.
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Freedom
Heart
Order
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To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
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Believe
Patriotic
Political
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Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.
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Independent
Thoughtful
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Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.
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Men
Mean
Taken
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Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.
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Government
Rights
Strong
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Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.
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Democracy
People
Thinking
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We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.
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Government
Bills
Rights
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That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.
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Being Ignored
Hands
Law
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The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul 's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups with the message: "Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman".
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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.
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Government
Country
Religious
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If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.
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Criminals
Doe
United States
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The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections.
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Liberty
Political
Rights
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Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.
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Intelligent
Liberty
Support
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Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.
Robert H. Jackson / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Doubt
Finals
Justice
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