Robert Jackson

We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#final #infallible #only

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

— Robert Jackson

#blair #country #form #government #howard

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

#error #falling #function #government #into

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

— Robert Jackson

#loyalties #men #money #more #often

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

— Robert Jackson

#could #doing #even #know #things

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#ceases #country #day #free #religion

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

— Robert Jackson

#being #drawn #into #petitioner #problem

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

— Robert Jackson

#grow #growing #likely #most #now

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

— Robert Jackson

#begin #coercive #compulsory #dissent #dissenters

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free