Keeping the gov from falling into error (Jackson)
September 18th, 2008 | Published in Politics, Quotes
It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
—Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice as quoted in Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (Ballantine Books: 1995), p. 422.