“We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.”
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) American judge
United States v. Spector, 343 US 169, 180 (1952) (dissenting)
Judicial opinions
“It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.”
In Ladies Home Journal, May 1958
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