Quote #77

To an unusual degree in the history of the Court, Justice Jackson wrote as he felt. In his case the style was the man:.He wrote as he talked and he talked as he felt. The fact that his opinions were written talk made them as lively as the liveliness of his talk.

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  1. He will live in the living law of the Constitution.
  2. He had 'impish candor', to borrow one of his own phrases. Candor, indeed, was one of his deepest veins.
  3. Nature had given him a bright, strong mind--it was one of the best three or four, possibly five, of the Court during his years of service. …
  4. There was nothing stuffy about him and therefore, nothing stuffy about his writing.
  5. He had a reservoir of learning, from which he drew gracefully and effortlessly. But the most marked quality of his judicial and non-judicia…
  6. No man who ever sat on the Supreme Court, it seems to me, mirrored the man in him in his judicial work more completely than did Justice Jac…
  7. Robert Jackson represented the advocate at his best. He possessed the rare combination of a good jury personality and the qualities of a pr…
  8. He had a quiet courage, which never led to a bellow of defiance but which permitted him to take in every instance the action he thought bes…

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