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

Quote by Felix Frankfurter

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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions...

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions...

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

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

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

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

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions...

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions...

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

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

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

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

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

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot...

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot...

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

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

There can be no security where there is fear.

There can be no security where there is fear.

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

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

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life...

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life...

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason,...

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason,...

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

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

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

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

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the...

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the...

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

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

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life...

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life...

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

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

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.