Best Quotes by Felix Frankfurter (Top 10)
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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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.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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More Felix Frankfurter Quotes
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There can be no security where there is fear.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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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.
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Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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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.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
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I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to … turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
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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.
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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.
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