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Robert H. Jackson1892–1954

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will.

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American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442-43 (1950)

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While the Declaration was directed against an excess of authority, the Constitution was directed against anarchy.
The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study in Crisis in American Power Politics (1941), P. 8
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Our protection against all kinds of fanatics and extremists, none of whom can be trusted with unlimited power over others, lies not in their forbearance but in the limitations of our Constitution.
American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 439 (1950)
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- Power
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943), 319 U.S. 641
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