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" Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago. "
Robert Jackson
Doing
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Even
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" 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
Opinion
Begin
Who
" Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. "
Robert Jackson
Often
Money
Than
" 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
Citizen
Keep
Government
" It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government. "
Robert Jackson
Best
Government
Interest
" When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. "
Robert Jackson
Opinions
Early
Quality
" We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final. "
Robert Jackson
Infallible
Final
Because
" We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. "
Robert Jackson
Itself
Afford
Liberty
" The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis. "
Robert Jackson
Avoid
Being
Drawn
" The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now. "
Robert Jackson
Growing
Grow
Most
" If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act. "
Robert Jackson
Politics
Petty
Star
" 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
Patriotism
Minds
Free
" 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
Test
Heart
Freedom