It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged … [by] not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) US Supreme Court Justice, jurist and teacher
United States v. Rabinowitz, 339 US 56, 69 (dissenting) (1950)

 
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