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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 647
AUTHOR: Robert Houghwout Jackson (1892–1954)
QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: Justice ROBERT H. JACKSON, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 642 (1943).
SUBJECTS: Freedom