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It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
— Robert Jackson
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Robert Jackson
judge, lawyer, politician
1892 – 1954
Robert Houghwout Jackson was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in 1954. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, and is the only person to have held all three of those offices. Jackson was also notable for his work at the Nuremberg trials prosecuting Nazi war criminals following World War II. Jackson developed a reputation as one of the best writers on the Supreme Court and one of the most committed to enforcing due process as protection from overreaching federal agencies.
All Quotes by Robert Jackson
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Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. 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.
— Robert Jackson
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It is not the function of the 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 Jackson