Quotes of Felix Frankfurter - somelinesforyou

“ Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ There can be no security where there is fear. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword - ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ”

- Felix Frankfurter
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