The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny.… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
A license cannot be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not,… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy.… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
