"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
Robert Houghwout Jackson was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in 1954. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, and is the only person to have held all three of those offices. Jackson was also notable for his work at the Nuremberg trials prosecutin
"Of one thing we may be sure. The future will never have to ask, with misgiving, what could the Nazis have said in their favor. History will know that whatever could be said, they were allowed to say. They have been given the kind of a Trial which they, in the days of their pomp and power, never gave to any man."
Robert H. Jackson"No penance would ever expiate the sin against free government of holding that a President can escape control of executive powers by law through assuming his military role."
Robert H. Jackson"As Attorney General, Solicitor General, and Assistant Attorney General,…he lost but a single case in the Supreme Court. Against [that] may be tallied some twenty-seven arguments which he won."
Robert H. Jackson"But we must not forget that in our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds — that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous."
Robert H. Jackson"The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens."
Robert H. Jackson"The office of the lawyer, however poorly filled, is too delicate, personal and confidential to be occupied by a corporation."
Robert H. Jackson