The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man’s struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Let me repeat in a slightly different way: genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not similarly handicapped.
