A quotation from Felix Frankfurter

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American jurist, teacher; US Supreme Court Justice (1939–62)
United States v. Rabinowitz, 339 US 56, 69 (1950) [dissenting ]

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