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Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time a...

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Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or pett...

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Robert H. Jackson

Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Born: 1892-02-13

Died: 1954-10-09

Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was United States Solicitor General (1938–1940), United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954). He is the only person in United States history to have held all three of those offices. He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.More