"I assume that no one will take issue with me when I say that these
North European countries are as enlightened as the United States in the
value they place on the individual and on human dignity. [Those
countries] do not consider it necessary to use a device like our Fifth
Amendment, under which an accused person may not be required to
testify. They go swiftly, efficiently and directly to the question of
whether the accused is guilty. No nation on earth goes to such lengths
or takes such pains to provide safeguards as we do, once an accused
person is called before the bar of justice and until his case is
completed." Speech at Ripon College, 1967.
