“Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism and we have no chain to it.”
"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
- Robert H. Jackson
Awareness
"The military constitutes a specialized community governed by a separate discipline from that of the civilian."
- Robert H. Jackson
Awareness
"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
Adversity
"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
Responsibility
"“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
Reflection
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity