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 falli…

- Robert H. Jackson

With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act …

- Robert H. Jackson

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is ad…

- Robert H. Jackson

Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he s…

- Robert H. Jackson

The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty an…

- Robert H. Jackson

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all tho…

- Robert H. Jackson

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

- Robert H. Jackson

Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government,…

- Robert H. Jackson

That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the j…

- Robert H. Jackson