With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.
Robert H. JacksonIntellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.
Robert H. JacksonWe are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.
Robert H. JacksonI see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.
Robert H. Jackson