Felix Frankfurter Quotes

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter

Power, Real, Behind

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

Age, Old, Bring

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

Life, Work, Words

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

Real, Wrong, Question

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

Single, Question, Anybody

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

Gratitude, Deep, Emotions

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

History, Liberty, Largely

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

Freedom, Society, End

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

Human, Enough, Likely

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

History, Nice, Liberty

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

Wise, Said, Equal

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

Today, Tomorrow, May

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

War, True, Simply

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

Today, Deep, May

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

Game, Chess, Ends

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

Strength, Mind, Confidence

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

Effort, Inevitable, Mode

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

Said, Ultimate, Touchstone

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

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

Legal, Facts, Equal

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

Successful, Forget, Politician

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

Wisdom, Often, Late

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

Writing, May, Matter

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

Life, Great, Live

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

Mind, Cannot, Order

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: November 15, 1882

Died: February 22, 1965

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