Robert Jackson Quotes (35 Quotes)

After trees use that fresh water up, there's an upwelling of saline water.

We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.

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.

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.

It's been a crazy year. Last Friday was a real tough one against Briggs. Right now I'm happy with the effort, but it comes down to fundamentals. One thing we're working on is team unity, and we've been working on dribbling skills and just basketball awareness. We're also going to be bringing up some (junior varsity) kids. The next couple weeks are important in terms of the teaching we do.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

His heart for evangelism and respected place of leadership in our convention along with his team approach to leadership seemed to be the strongest factors in selecting him as our nominee.

I have a smile on my face that's 10 feet wide. It represents the smiling faces of the 1.1 million school children smiling they're so happy with this decision.

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

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.

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds-that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.

There's one word to describe going to go see Coretta - historic. It's good to finally see her at peace.

The purpose of our paper isn't to suggest that plantations are bad. Rather, we are saying it is important to think carefully about where and what people plant, particularly where water resources are scarce.

I believe we have not thought through the consequences of this. We are buying a few decades to transform our economies.

It raises awareness of the needs of the library. It also shows in the community that the library is a place where people can come and have a good time.

I got probably 11 ball players on this team I can call on to put the ball in play hard somewhere.

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

We start down a rough road when we begin to mix compulsory public education with compulsory godliness.

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.

Maybe they're looking at the future, as far as appointments in his administration or some other favor from him, ... I think that if, in fact, they run for office in the future, their party affiliation to the Democratic party is going to be called into question and they're going to have to answer to that.

(Grove City's) got a big fellow down low and their guards aren't too bad. (The loss to Marion-Franklin) was a setback, but it was probably a good thing for us.

You have lost, Governor Pataki and schoolchildren of New York City have won. It's over. Now let's implement the decision.

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

It is the position of the department, that all investigative reports are confidential documents of the executive department of the government to aid in the duty laid upon the president by the Constitution to take care that the laws be faithfully executed and that congressional or public access to them would be in the public interest.

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

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

When you consider that Symphony is currently limited to the niche of REO evictions and related post-foreclosure legal processes, reaching the 5,000 case mark in about a year's time is a good indicator of just how capable Symphony is, and of how well-received it has been. And, we are particularly pleased to have reached this milestone while maintaining a system uptime of over 99, and with our users rating Symphony among the industry's best default-related technologies.

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.

It really points us in a new direction to understand microbial communities.

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

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

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

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

I was starting to question my own sanity (after the first two games). You don't pull on Superman's cape - we were over our heads in those games. But the kids stayed positive and that's important.

If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure.