Francis Biddle

“The soundest and simplest test of a democracy is the respect it gives to its minorities.”

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

“The individual human being is the kernel of democracy.”

“The enforced migration of the Japanese from the West Coast was a tragic and dangerous mistake.”

“Here were decent people, bewildered and goaded into a fanatical sadism.”

“But the Constitution has not greatly bothered the military mind.”

“The privilege against self-incrimination is a specific provision of which it is peculiarly true that 'a page of history is worth a volume of logic.'”

“We are not trying the German people. We are trying a handful of men.”