ROBERT H. JACKSON

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

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

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.

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

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

Segregation is nearing an end. If there are two or three deaths on this court, this will come. There is no way out.

It is common to think of our own time as standing on the apex of human history.

It was my idea to keep the [Justice] Department purely a law office and not have it engage in the administration of legislation. This was based on my view that the best quality in a lawyer’s advice is disinterestedness.

Every person must be his own watchman for the truth, because the forefathers did not trust government to separate the true from the false for us.

A man's mere property status, without more, cannot be used by a state to test, qualify or limit his rights as a citizen of the United States.

Always, as in this case, the government urges hasty decision to forestall some emergency or serve some purpose and pleads that paralysis will result if its claims to power are denied.

Our Constitution sought to leave no excuse for violent attack on the status quo by providing a legal alternative—attack by ballot.

Conflicts which have divided the Justices always mirror a conflict which pervades society.

Government of limited power need not be anemic government.

Happily, there has been little occasion in our history for the interpretation of the powers of the President as Commander in Chief.

If there are other ways of gracefully and good naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.

Indigence in itself is neither a source of rights or a basis for denying them.

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.

It will be a sad day for the revenues if the good will of the people toward their taxing system is frittered away in efforts to accomplish by taxation moral reforms that cannot be accomplished by direct legislation.

Just what our forefathers did envision or would have envisioned had they foreseen modern conditions, must be devined from materials almost as enigmatic as the dreams Joseph was called upon to interpret for the Pharaoh.

Liberal leadership exhausts its power to persuade the discontented and the have-nots to accept ballot-box disappointments or compromises if their victories are to be nullified and if elections are effective in shaping policy only when conservatives win.

No longer may the head of a state consider himself outside the law, and impose inhuman acts on the peoples of the world.