Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.
Felix FrankfurterFreedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.
Felix FrankfurterOne is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
Felix FrankfurterUltimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.
Felix Frankfurter