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Robert H. Jackson1892–1954

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

Robert H. Jackson on freedom

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943), 319 U.S. 641

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While the Declaration was directed against an excess of authority, the Constitution was directed against anarchy.
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The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion — except for the sect that can win political power.
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