"We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority."

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Source : "West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette 319 U.S. 641". Judicial opinion, 1943.

Robert H. Jackson

#Opportunity Quotes #Rights Quotes #Government Quotes

“A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.”
“Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.”
“Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.”
“Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.”
“It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.”
“Love has the power to change everything.”
“President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?”
“It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.”

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