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1890–1949 United States
William Francis Murphy (April 13, 1890 – July 19, 1949) was an American politician, lawyer, and jurist from Michigan. He was a Democrat who was named to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1940 after a political career that included serving as United States Attorney General, 35th governor of Michigan, and Mayor of Detroit.
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The law knows no finer hour than when it cuts through formal concepts and transitory emotions to protect unpopular citizens against discrimination and persecution.
Falbo v. United States (1944)
Any inconvenience that may have accompanied an attempt to conform to procedural due process cannot be said to justify violations of constitutional rights of individuals.
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Individual rights have been recognized by our jurisprudence only after long and costly struggles. They should not be struck down by anything less than the gravest necessity.
Falbo v. United States (1944)
Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.
Criminal punishment for disobedience of an arbitrary and invalid order is objectionable regardless of whether the order be interlocutory or final.
Falbo v. United States (1944)
If there has been one human factor that, more than any other, can be credited with bringing about an understanding of the new, positive role of Government, it has been the untiring and devoted efforts of that perennial minority we know as "the progressives."
The Right Use of Democracy (1939)
This exclusion of "all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien," from the Pacific Coast area on a plea of military necessity in the absence of martial law ought not to be approved. Such exclusion goes over "the very brink of constitutional power" and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Common sense and justice dictate that a citizen accused of a crime should have the fullest hearing possible, plus the opportunity to present every reasonable defense. Only an unenlightened jurisprudence condemns an individual without according him those rights.
Falbo v. United States (1944)
It is one thing to believe in civil liberty and another thing to practice it in all the daily relationships of man to man. And I am afraid the facts are that some of us have been for civil liberty in theory but not very careful about practicing it in our daily lives.
The Meaning of Civil Liberty (1939)
Men and women every where are haunted by a feeling of insecurity, of helplessness to protect the things they cherish most. And yet, while their present state is so unhappy, they also have a fear of change, and of the unforeseeable and unknowable consoquences of change. They fear that change, instead of bringing them grenter security, will take away the things they want most to keep.
The Challenge of Intolerance (1940)
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