Jackson, Robert H. (Robert H. Jackson)

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
-- Robert H. Jackson

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

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.
-- Robert H. Jackson

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 H. Jackson

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

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