Robert H. Jackson Quotes
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Jackson, Robert H. Dissenting opinion. United States v. Wunderlich, 342 U.S. 98, Supreme Court of the United States, 1951, p. 103.
Clark, after becoming one of the richest men in America, wanted to go into National Politics, but most people hated him so he could never win elected office. At the time, Montana selected their Senators by a vote of the State Legislature. So Clark bribed enough members of the legislature to become the Senator. However, the bribery scheme became a public scandal and the Senate refused to seat him. So the legislature had another vote in the next legislative session and Clark won again, and that time no one had the evidence of the bribes. But then, more about Clark became known, and he just served the one term.
See {640733} for an English political leader’s similar view.
1st Earl of Oxford. See {563056} for an American political leader’s similar view.
Robert Houghwout Jackson was an American attorney and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, and is the only person to have held all three of those offices. Jackson was also notable for his work as Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals following World War II.
