To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products.… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all -… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
