Felix Frankfurter Quotes

The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantia...

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

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we wor...

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

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

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

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in...

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason that's all we ...