.....If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
..........— Robert Houghwout Jackson (1892 - 1954), U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Minersville School District v. Grobitis, 319 U.S. 624, 642, 1940. Quoted in The Great Thoughts (1985, Introduction and a new compilation © 1996 by David Laskin) by George Seldes.
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