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Robert Jackson
1892 – 1954 • American • Statesman
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Showing 6 quotesThe day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.— Robert Jackson
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Religion
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
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
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Patriotism
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
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Government