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The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

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Terminiello v. City of Chicago (1949), dissenting in twenty-four page decision. 1949

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Robert H. Jackson

Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U. S. Supreme Court Justice

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