The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
