A confession is wholly and incontestably voluntary only if a guilty person gives himself up to the law and becomes his own accuser.
More from Robert H. Jackson
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.
Permalink to quote #6 The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of of…
Permalink to quote #8 As to ethics, the parties seem to me as much on a parity as the pot and the kettle. But want of knowledge or innocent intent is not ordinarily available to dim…
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