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
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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

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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

 American Judge
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

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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. - 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

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

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate

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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

 American Judge
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

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