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The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.
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with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact
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Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Robert H. Jacksonverified·West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624·June 14, 1943
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Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.
Robert H. Jacksonverified·West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624·June 14, 1943
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Ignorance is visited as sharply as wilful disobedience
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It is over the lowest class of mankind that government by terror is intended to operate, and it is on them that it operates to the worst effect.
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Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them.
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We shall enter into any war with a full consciousness of the awful consequences that it always entails, whether successful or not, and we, of course, shall make every effort consistent with national honor and the highest national interest to avoid a resort to arms.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency.