Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

#Felix Frankfurter

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may...

#Felix Frankfurter

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the...

#Inequality

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

#Felix Frankfurter

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

#Constitution

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

#Constitution

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority

#Decision

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

#Gratitude

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

#Liberty

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have...

#History, #Liberty

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

#Press

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

#Reason