Jerome Frank

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since…

— Jerome Frank

We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at…

— Jerome Frank

To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them…

— Jerome Frank

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none…

— Jerome Frank

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

— Jerome Frank

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

— Jerome Frank

The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.

— Jerome Frank

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.

— Jerome Frank

To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of…

— Jerome Frank

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

— Jerome Frank

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

— Jerome Frank

Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.

— Jerome Frank