57 Quotes by Robert H. Jackson

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.

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

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

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

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.

The matter does not appear to appear to me now as it appears to have appeared to me then.

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.