Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. — 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
One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very… — 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
The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
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 Image
