5 Erwin Griswold Quotes

Erwin Griswold quotes

1. It quickly becomes apparent to any person who has considerable experience with classified material that there is massive overclassification and that the principal concern of the classifiers is not with national security, but rather with governmental embarrassment of one sort or another.

2. The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

1. The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm ... a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.

2. Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.

3. We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.