Robert H. Jackson Quotes About Atheism
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In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.
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The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.
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Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
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The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.
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Robert H. Jackson
- Born: February 13, 1892
- Died: October 9, 1954
- Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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