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Often his name was, in a generation or two, forgotten. It was from this brotherhood that America has drawn its statesmen and its judges. A free and self-governing Republic stands as a monument for the little-known and unremembered as well as for the famous men of our profession.

— Robert H. Jackson

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We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Procedural fairness, if not all that originally was meant by due process of law, is at least what it most uncompromisingly requires.

But when notice is a person's due, process which is a mere gesture is not 'due process.'

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties: The Role of the Judiciary (1953)

A confession is wholly and incontestably voluntary only if a guilty person gives himself up to the law and becomes his own accuser.

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