“Under these circumstances, except for any personal humiliation involved in admitting that I do not always understand the opinions of this Court, I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.”

—  Robert H. Jackson

Massachusetts v. United States, 333 U.S. 611, 639-40 (1948) (dissenting)
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