“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
Writing for the court, McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332 (1943).
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“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.”
United States v. Rabinowitz, 339 U.S. 56, 69 (1950).
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