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Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

— Frank Murphy

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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)

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)

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