It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system -- a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently… — 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
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
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. — 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
Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand.… — 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
