Robert H. Jackson Quotes

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damned if you do You'll be damned if you don't

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.

Another fine mess you've gotten me into.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

We were caught in a hell of a trap.

There is such a choice of difficulties, that I own myself at a loss how to determine

You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take. It's one or the other.

Where there is no alternative there is no problem.

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.

You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

There was only one catch and that was catch 22

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

What the deuce is to do now?

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Always avoid the acute angle.

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.