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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.
Robert H. Jackson
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Robert H. Jackson
Age: 62 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 13
Died: 1954
Died: October 9
Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Robert Houghwout Jackson
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The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.
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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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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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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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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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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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The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.
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Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.
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But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.
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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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I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.
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In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.
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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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