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

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

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

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

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

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

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