Justice Robert Jackson

Quotes by Justice Robert Jackson

• 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.

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• The price of freedom of religion or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

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• A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

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