"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."
About Robert H. Jackson
Robert Houghwout Jackson was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in 1954. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, and is the only person to have held all three of those offices.
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