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Robert H. Jackson Quotes: The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.
         

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


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I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.



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The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.



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One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.



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The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.



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The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.



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