"Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final."

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Source : Brown v. Allen (concurring opinion) (1953)

Robert H. Jackson

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“Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.8, Adam, Stevenson
“I Intend to Take Time for Myself to Live the Life that I Came Here to Live.”
“The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.”
“I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee . Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.”
“Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.”
“Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.”
“The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.”
“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”

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