Famous Quotes / Felix Frankfurter
17 Quotations by Felix Frankfurter
- 1. All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we wor ...
- 2. As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Consti ...
- 3. Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we ...
- 4. Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
- 5. Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
- 6. I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fi ...
- 7. I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
- 8. It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controvers ...
- 9. It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in ...
- 10. Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not ...
- 11. Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
- 12. Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
- 13. The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or ...
- 14. There can be no security where there is fear.
- 15. To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
- 16. We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional pol ...
- 17. Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.