"Many persons believed, or pretended to believe, and confidently asserted, that freed slaves would not make good soldi…"

"Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says…"

"It seemed to be the policy of the Secretary of War to lose no opportunity to throw a stone at those who had made them…"

"The great crisis facing the country was the rebellion and anybody in the North who wanted to preserve the Union now f…"

"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…"

"This exclusion of "all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien," from the Pacific Coast area on a plea…"