Quote from Justice Robert H. Jackson 

"It is not the function of the government
to keep the citizen from falling into error;
it is the function of the citizen to keep
the government from falling into error."

Quote by:
Justice Robert H. Jackson
(1892-1954) Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
Source:
US Supreme Court, American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442 (1950)
 
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