Quote from Erwin N. Griswold 

"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."

Quote by:
Erwin N. Griswold
(1904-1994) Solicitor General of the United States (1967-1973), Dean of Harvard Law School (1946-1967), member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, President of the American Bar Foundation (1971-1974)
 
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