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History Quotes by Felix Frankfurter
- It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History…
- Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway…
- 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…
- Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
- Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
- The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
- One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution...…
- The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
- It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough