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Frank Murphy

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“Donoso Cortes, distinguished ambassador from Spain to France at the time of the Third French Revolution, was once asked to what circumstance he owed his recent conversion to the Christian faith. "I do not recall any," he replied; "my life has been very commonplace. yet perhaps one feeling of mine has been pleasing to God. I have never regarded the poor man who sat at my gate as any other than my brother." In that spiri, I am persuaded, the American family will move steadily toward a democracy more complete than any yet known to mankind.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is true, of course, that our resources and our industrial plants are not collectively owned. This is not a collectivistic state, and if we build aright, it will never be a collectivistic state. But in one sense, our resources are collectively owned. They are owned by the people together in the sense that all the people owners and non-owners depend on those resources for their lives. Unless the resources are used in the interests of all, the non-owners will suffer, as many have suffered in the past and as many suffer today.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he people have a right to insist, through their democratic institutions, that the owners of the nation's economic resources and machinery use them in a socially desirable way. From that there is no escape. Adopt the other philosophy and you leave the non-owners of property- those who depend on the property of others for a living- you leave them outside the economic system. Those who adopt that philosophy will have to accept the consequences.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a sense, we are all vested with stewardship - whether we sit in the councils of government or toil in the service of Christianity or run life's course in the ordinary occupation of the average citizen. As members of a democracy, we are obligated to keep our minds open and our thoughts abreast of events in a fast-moving world. Let us be Christian in our approach to all problems, determined in our struggle to solve them, confident of our ultimate victory. And one day, other peoples, weary of strife, will turn to us for guidance in regaining the liberty they have lost.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is one thing to believe in civil liberty and another thing to practice it in all the daily relationships of man to man. And I am afraid the facts are that some of us have been for civil liberty in theory but not very careful about practicing it in our daily lives.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This work, meager as it is in the light of what must yet be undertaken, has been done in the belief that the democratic system, to survive, must demonstrate not only its ability to provide for the people the opportunity to earn a decent life, but also its competence to render the services of government with a high degree of efficiency und unquestionable integrity. In a word, this work has been done in the hope that it might, in a measure, supplement and strengthen the broad efforts of the Administration to achieve a more gracious, more just, and more complete democracy.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We recall that America itself came into being at the hands of harried and homeless people, searching for the blessings of pence and freedom. Remembering their great struggle, we sympathize the more with this effort of yours to create in Palestine a haven of refuge and a center of culture where your kith and kin, free from oppression and persecution, can find life and peace in the land of their forefathers.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men and women every where are haunted by a feeling of insecurity, of helplessness to protect the things they cherish most. And yet, while their present state is so unhappy, they also have a fear of change, and of the unforeseeable and unknowable consoquences of change. They fear that change, instead of bringing them grenter security, will take away the things they want most to keep.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not guns nor buttle ships will ultimately preserve democracy, but the devotion of a people who have the good sonse to realize that intolerance is no respecter of persons- that once unleashed it has no regard for religion or race or economic status, or least of all, for that dignity of the individual which lies at the basis of our civilization. Democracy in America will be saved if, as a people, we are wise enough to know that if we do not respect other's faiths, the day may come when other men will not respect our faiths.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“America's mission is not the propagation of hate. Our mission is that of helping to prove that only in peace and brotherhood will men find happiness on this earth. Our mission is to show that by reasonable and peaceful means, men of different natures can build a common security in which justice and liberty are denied to none. To those who ask if we are worthy of such an errand, let us the answer of a nation united in its friendship for those who are oppressed, disdainful of any who would take away from us the matchless blessing of our friendship for each other.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The picture that meets our eyes as we look out upon the world this morning is a dark picture; but it is not a hopeless one. For the world has suffered liko this bofore and survived to see a happier day. In the pages of history we read that ever since the beginning of time, through one tragedy after another, man's destiny has brought him again and again to his feet. In fact, even in the hours of bloodshed and destruction, on the highest tides of hatred and intolerance, man has beon steadily accomplishing the advances in art, science, literature and religion, which are the sum of civilization.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our forefathers in this land knew the sequence of tragedy and uplift as well as any people has over known it. Having found a measure of religious freedom, they suffered for 150 years the injustices of a subject people. But finally they broke their bonds and began the writing of the brightest chapter in the political history of man. Even in that bright chapter there have been dark pages. The Civil War- to name but one- was followed by the bitterness of Reconstruction, but out of it we gained a unity that has stood the test of time.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Common sense and justice dictate that a citizen accused of a crime should have the fullest hearing possible, plus the opportunity to present every reasonable defense. Only an unenlightened jurisprudence condemns an individual without according him those rights. Such a denial is especially oppressive where a full hearing might disclose that the administrative action underlying the prosecution is the product of excess wartime emotions.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Experience demonstrates that in time of war individual liberties cannot always be entrusted safely to uncontrolled administrative discretion. Illustrative of this proposition is the remark attributed to one of the members of petitioner's local board to the effect that "I do not have any damned use for Jehovah's Witnesses." The presumption against foreclosing the defense of illegal and arbitrary administrative action is therefore strong.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Criminal punishment for disobedience of an arbitrary and invalid order is objectionable regardless of whether the order be interlocutory or final.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This exclusion of "all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien," from the Pacific Coast area on a plea of military necessity in the absence of martial law ought not to be approved. Such exclusion goes over "the very brink of constitutional power" and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The main reasons relied upon by those responsible for the forced evacuation, therefore, do not prove a reasonable relation between the group characteristics of Japanese Americans and the dangers of invasion, sabotage and espionage. The reasons appear, instead, to be largely an accumulation of much of the misinformation, half-truths and insinuations that for years have been directed against Japanese Americans by people with racial and economic prejudices-the same people who have been among the foremost advocates of the evacuation.'”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any inconvenience that may have accompanied an attempt to conform to procedural due process cannot be said to justify violations of constitutional rights of individuals.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In all our literature, there is probably no keener appraisal of man's experience with Christianity than Gilbert Chesterton's remark that "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found difficult and not tried." Chesterton was a man of letters, not a man of science - but in that aphorism he became for a moment a psychoanalyst of no small capacity. He looked into the inner minds of many of those who claim that Christianity has failed and saw that their contention is not so much an expression of conviction as a somewhat pathetic attempt to camouflage their own failure to give Christianity a fair trial. It isn't Christianity that has failed. Christianity was hewn from the rock that is truth, and truth is everlasting, no matter how much the trappings of civilization may change from one century or one generation to another.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It isn't that we did not know how to apply Christianity to our daily work and our daily associations. The trouble was that we were more anxious to live in another way. The trouble was that We found the path of selfish materialism simpler and moreinviting, and we hastened blithely along it until we stumbled into the swamp from which we are now slowly emerging. Unknowingly, perhaps, but enthusiastically, we encouraged a selfish exploitation of the world's manpower, a reckless misuse and wastage of our natural wealth, and an insolent perversion of money to control the lives of defenseless individuals. And it is no surprise that these abuses brought in their train corruption and in the public service, autocratic denial of civil liberties, and destructive war between labor and its employers.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The essential faith of Christianity and the essential faith of democracy are one and the same. It is the faith that the human personality is inherently free; that every man is endowed with certain rights founded in the very nature of human living; and that there is a code of justice of wrong-doing and right-doing that is not subject to change by the law of man. Our people want to keep democracy. That is the outstanding fact about our life as a nation today, 150 years after it began. They want to keep democracy, knowing that despite the ills which they have suffered under it, democracy is the only just way of human living.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there has been one human factor that, more than any other, can be credited with bringing about an understanding of the new, positive role of Government, it has been the untiring and devoted efforts of that perennial minority we know as "the progressives." If I were to choose an I could think of none better than that amazing fighter for social justice, the man who, as Mayor of Cleveland, wrote his name large in American history, the indomitable Tom Johnson. Always in our history, the progressives have made their fight under tremendous handicaps and against powerful opposition. Consistently they have been shelled and bombarded with the ancient epithets of "communist" and "radical" that today are still being used by a misguided few in the familiar attempts to prevent the institutions of democracy from being put to their right use.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That truth was never before more grimly true than it is today, for today an estimated ten million of our wage-earners stand temporarily outside the economic system. The system cannot provide them with the opportunity to earn a wage, and they themselves are powerless to create that opportunity. This is the greatest problem before us. There are other great problems, of course. We need to build houses' for those living in shacks and slums; to bring medical care to those who cannot buy it; to stabilize the farmer's market and conserve the soil he tills; to help the railroads back to solid ground; to improve our system of social security; and to continue our search for industrial peace. These are tremendous tasks and important tasks. But the one that overshadows them all is the task of putting our people back to work. We may count on giving many of them jobs through a broad, long-ronge program of public works, That is sound and sensible. But the main problem is somehow to return most of them to jobs within the economic system, to see that they are justly paid, and to see that their employment is stable and permanent. Somehow we must organize the economic system to make these things possible. Unless we do, the "good of all" will remain a myth and "individual liberty" a mockery for those who live in fear.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We struggle in these years of crisis to understand our new problems, to end poverty and unemployment, to establish just relationships among government and business and labor and every other group in our population. We struggle to express the people's will end meet the people's needs with good laws. But every one of these efforts, every one of these laws, is doomed to fail or to succeed only in part, if we cannot look to our administrators, our executives, and our judges, from the smallest hamlet to the nation's capitol, and see them single in their devotion to their oath of office, single in their resolve to let no improper act violate their public trust.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And now, as never before, we need to do our work, as Lincoln advised, "with malice toward none, with charity for all." We need to do it with tolerance for those with whom we disagree; with compassion for those who are less fortunate than we; with sympathy and understanding for those who speak a different tongue or whose background is in a different land. We need to do it with a constant understanding that the things we have in common are far bigger and more important than any difference that may seem to keep us apart. It is in such a spirit, and in such a spirit alone, that peace is won, justice achieved, and the sons of men made free.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For many of the human family, the period we live in is one of heartbreak and tragedy. Helplessly, the humble, unknown thousands whose only wants are bread and peace, see their homelands overrun by invading armies, their homes e.nd fields ravaged by the lightning strokes of war. Life for them is a nightmare of destruction and hate, too horrible to be believed, if it were not that the harsh facts lie before their eyes. In such an era, earnest efforts on the other side of the ledger- endeavors to and to build homes for the homeless and oppressed -must come to all men of good will as a source of cheer and encouragement. I am grateful for the opportunity to visit with you who are engaged in such a movement.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man has a higher destiny than war and strife. Man's destiny is to achieve a society in which the principles of justice and peace are practiced as well as believed. His destiny is to create those conditions of moderate and reasonable prosperity in which human beings, assured of the chance to earn by their labor those earthly riches that sustain a life of dignity, may cultivate the riches of the spirit. These things are worth fighting for. If they are not, what is there left to life but something empty and barren? We cannot simply turn our backs on these higher aims; we cannot simply confine ourselves to the search for pleasure and the immediate task of making a living. As human beings, we have an obligation to take an interest in the greater errands that concern the entire family of men in this nation and in this world.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Often in state and local governments we have seen the strange alternation of progress and reaction. But always after retrogression there has come an interlude when men have marched steadfastly toward better things. In this hour, again, much of the world is slipping backward- for how long we do not know. But those who pessimistically say that all is lost make a grave mistake. Man will survive this ordeal also, and the soul of civilization, if not its outward forms, will endure. And to those who remain will fall the duty of building again the structure that has fallen. May it be the good fortune of America to act so wisely in the days to come that we will be ready and able, when there is peace again, to help in constructing a foundation of justice among men and nations upon which that peace may be preserved.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Individual rights have been recognized by our jurisprudence only after long and costly struggles. They should not be struck down by anything less than the gravest necessity. We assent to their temporary suspension only to the extent that they constitute a clear and present danger to the effective prosecution of the war and only as a means of preserving those rights undiminished for ourselves and future generations. Before giving such an assent, therefore, we should be convinced of the existence of a reasonable necessity and be satisfied that the suspension is in accordance with the legislative intention.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That an individual should languish in prison for five years without being accorded the opportunity of proving that the prosecution was based upon arbitrary and illegal administrative action is not in keeping with the high standards of our judicial system. Especially is this so where neither public necessity nor rule of law or statute leads inexorably to such a harsh result. The law knows no finer hour than when it cuts through formal concepts and transitory emotions to protect unpopular citizens against discrimination and persecution. I can perceive no other course for the law to take in this case.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The judicial test of whether the Government, on a plea of military necessity, can validly deprive an individual of any of his constitutional rights is whether the deprivation is reasonably related to a public danger that is so "imme diate, imminent, and impending" as not to admit of delay and not to permit the intervention of ordinary constitutional processes to alleviate the danger. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34, banishing from a prescribed area of the Pacific Coast "all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien," clearly does not meet that test. Being an obvious racial discrimination, the order deprives all those within its scope of the equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. It further deprives these individuals of their constitutional rights to live and work where they will, to establish a home where they choose and to move about freely. In excommunicating them without benefit of hearings, this order also deprives them of all their constitutional rights to procedural due process. Yet no reasonable relation to an "immediate, imminent, and impending" public danger is evident to support this racial restriction which is one of the most sweeping and complete deprivations of constitutional rights in the history of this nation in the absence of martial law.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It must be conceded that the military and naval situation in the spring of 1942 was such as to generate a very real fear of invasion of the Pacific Coast, accompanied by fears of sabotage and espionage in that area. The military command was therefore justified in adopting all reasonable means necessary to combat these dangers. In adjudging the military action taken in light of the then apparent dangers, we must not erect too high or too meticulous standards; it is necessary only that the action have some reasonable relation to the removal of the dangers of invasion, sabotage and espionage. But the exclusion, either temporarily or permanently, of all persons with Japanese blood in their veins has no such reasonable relation. And that relation is lacking because the exclusion order necessarily must rely for its reasonableness upon the assumption that all persons of Japanese ancestry may have a dangerous tendency to commit sabotage and espionage and to aid our Japanese enemy in other ways. It is difficult to believe that reason, logic or experience could be marshalled in support of such an assumption.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one denies, of course, that there were some disloyal persons of Japanese descent on the Pacific Coast who did all in their power to aid their ancestral land. Similar disloyal activities have been engaged in by many persons of German, Italian and even more pioneer stock in our country. But to infer that examples of individual disloyalty prove group disloyalty and justify discriminatory action against the entire group is to deny that under our system of law individual guilt is the sole basis for deprivation of rights. Moreover, this inference, which is at the very heart of the evacuation orders, has been used in support of the abhorrent and despicable treatment of minority groups by the dictatorial tyrannies which this nation is now pledged to destroy. To give constitutional sanction to that inference in this case, however well-intentioned may have been the military command on the Pacific Coast, is to adopt one of the cruelest of the rationales used by our enemies to destroy the dignity of the individual and to encourage and open the door to discriminatory actions against other minority groups in the passions of tomorrow.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No adequate reason is given for the failure to treat these Japanese Americans on an individual basis by holding investigations and hearings to separate the loyal from the disloyal, as was done in the case of persons of German and Italian ancestry. Yet nearly four months elapsed after Pearl Harbor before the first exclusion order was issued; nearly eight months went by until the last order was is sued; and the last of these "subversive" persons was not actually removed until almost eleven months had elapsed. Leisure and deliberation seem to have been more of the essence than speed. And the fact that conditions were not such as to warrant a declaration of martial law adds strength to the belief that the factors of time and military necessity were not as urgent as they have been represented to be.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dissent, therefore, from this legalization of racism. Racial discrimination in any form and in any degree has no justifiable part whatever in our democratic way life. It is unattractive in any setting but it is utterly revolting among a free people who have embraced the principles set forth in the Constitution of the United States. All residents of this nation are kin in some way by blood or culture to a foreign land. Yet they are primarily and necessarily a part of the new and distinct civilization of the United States. They must accordingly be treated at all times as the heirs of the American experiment and as entitled to all the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.”
Frank Murphy (1890–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source