Robert H. Jackson

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

- Robert H. Jackson

"The military constitutes a specialized community governed by a separate discipline from that of the civilian."

- 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

"Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism and we have no chain to it."

- Robert H. Jackson

"It is not the function of our 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

"“I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned–as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented–interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.”"

- Robert H. Jackson