Frank Murphy Quotes

Any delay in action protecting constitutional rights is justice denied.

Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad

Human rights and due process of law transcend all boundaries.

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

No man's life shall be taken away; no man's honor or good name shall be stained; no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, or any ways punished; no man shall be deprived of his wife or children; no man's goods or estate shall be taken away from him, or any way damaged, under color of law or countenance of authority, unless it be by the virtue or equity of some express law of the country, warranting the same, established by a General Court and sufficiently published

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

Every citizen has, under the law, a sacred and inviolable right to personal liberty and to the possession of his goods

Well, summary executions would be very effective. But we have impediments—they're called the Constitution and due process. And we have a responsibility to uphold the Constitution.

No person should suffer … without being brought to answer by due course and process of law

The [constitutional] safeguards of "due process of law" and "the equal protection of the laws" summarize the history of freedom of English-speaking peoples running back to Magna Carta and reflected in the constitutional development of our people.

The rights given in the Constitution are given to all people—the most popular and the least popular.

The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials …

Federal courts sit to ensure that individuals are not imprisoned in violation of the Constitution—not to correct errors of fact.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

As we approached our work, my colleagues and I looked to the U.S. Constitution for guidance. It states, 'No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.' No person, no exceptions.

The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.

I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.

There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen.

We have a system of jurisprudence. You are innocent until proven guilty. You have a right to counsel. And you have a right to hospitalization if you are ill. That is our system. And it's what makes this country special and what makes this country great.

Under our Constitution, if you're a bad citizen, you're still a citizen; that's the way we roll.