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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. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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.

Felix Frankfurter

American Judge Judaism And Jews

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 Quotes

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

Constitution Constitutions

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

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 Quotes

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

American Judge Law And Lawyers

If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life

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 Quotes

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

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate

Felix Frankfurter

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Felix Frankfurter

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

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 Quotes

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

American Judge Constitution

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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 Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal

Felix Frankfurter

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one

Felix Frankfurter

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

It simply is not true that war never settles anything - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

It simply is not true that war never settles anything

Felix Frankfurter

Ours is an accusational and not an inquisitorial system - a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

Ours is an accusational and not an inquisitorial system - a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth

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 Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions

Felix Frankfurter

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority

Felix Frankfurter

A license cannot be be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which red-headedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

A license cannot be be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which red-headedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing

Felix Frankfurter

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

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

Felix Frankfurter

There can be no security where there is fear. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

There can be no security where there is fear.

Felix Frankfurter

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

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 Quotes

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

American Judge Mind

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

Felix Frankfurter

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy

Felix Frankfurter

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

The real rulers in Washington are invisible to exercise power from behind the scenes - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

The real rulers in Washington are invisible to exercise power from behind the scenes

Felix Frankfurter

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

Felix Frankfurter

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. - Felix Frankfurter Quotes

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Felix Frankfurter

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