Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.
Felix Frankfurter's acceptance speech for an award from the National Institute for Immigrant Welfare at Biltmore Hotel in New York, May 11, 1933.
