It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
Felix FrankfurterAll our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
Felix FrankfurterIf one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
Felix Frankfurter