"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee."

"The defendant in a courtroom is little more than a patient on an operating table without the benefit of anaesthesia. …"

"Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the tr…"

"I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn’t set up the ground rules."

"The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their int…"

"Individual rights have been recognized by our jurisprudence only after long and costly struggles. They should not be …"

"Common sense and justice dictate that a citizen accused of a crime should have the fullest hearing possible, plus the…"

"Experience demonstrates that in time of war individual liberties cannot always be entrusted safely to uncontrolled ad…"

"Criminal punishment for disobedience of an arbitrary and invalid order is objectionable regardless of whether the ord…"

"That an individual should languish in prison for five years without being accorded the opportunity of proving that th…"