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{{cquote|Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.<ref>''W. Va. State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette'', 319 U.S. 624, 641 (1943).</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.<ref>''W. Va. State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette'', 319 U.S. 624, 641 (1943).</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.<ref>''Brown v. Allen'', 344 U.S. 443, 540 (1953) (Jackson, J., concurring).</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.<ref>''Brown v. Allen'', 344 U.S. 443, 540 (1953) (Jackson, J., concurring).</ref>}}
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{{cquote|Under this conception of criminal procedure, any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances.<ref>https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/338/49.html</ref>}}
 
He also served as the Chief United States Prosecutor at the [[Nuremberg Trials]] at the end of [[World War II]], in Germany. President [[Harry S. Truman]] appointed Jackson in 1945, who took a leave of absence from the Court, returning in 1946.  Before becoming a Supreme Court Justice, Jackson had been brought to [[Washington, D.C.]] by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] as General Counsel to the then-Bureau of Internal Revenue, and subsequently served as Assistant Attorney General in the AntiTrust Division of the Justice Department, Solicitor General, and Attorney General.<ref>http://www.supremecourtus.gov/publicinfo/speeches/sp_05-16-03.html</ref>
 
He also served as the Chief United States Prosecutor at the [[Nuremberg Trials]] at the end of [[World War II]], in Germany. President [[Harry S. Truman]] appointed Jackson in 1945, who took a leave of absence from the Court, returning in 1946.  Before becoming a Supreme Court Justice, Jackson had been brought to [[Washington, D.C.]] by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] as General Counsel to the then-Bureau of Internal Revenue, and subsequently served as Assistant Attorney General in the AntiTrust Division of the Justice Department, Solicitor General, and Attorney General.<ref>http://www.supremecourtus.gov/publicinfo/speeches/sp_05-16-03.html</ref>
  
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