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“The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.”

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Robert H. Jackson was a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, known for his contributions to the field of law and the judiciary. He was born on February 13, 1892, and died on October 9, 1954. more

“The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.”

Ifs May Doe States Use Seems Might Company Strange Taxes Authority Tests Doctrine Officials Taxation Hostage

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but nothing in my experience or observation confirms the idea that he is insensitive to publicity. Who does not prefer good to ill report of his work? And if fame a good public name is, as Milton said, the "last infirmity of noble mind", it is frequently the first infirmity of a mediocre one.”

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“There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”

Rights Suicide Bills Bill Of Rights Pact

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“It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.”

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“Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.”

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“It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.”

Needs Should Believe Doe Enough Decided

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“But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.”

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