Decision Quote by Felix Frankfurter Download Open image “Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority” — Felix Frankfurter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decision
The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches. — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
A Supreme Court decision does not establish a supreme law of the land that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth… — Anonymous 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
Making the right decision is hard,telling someone your decision is even harder. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it?” — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think of people as making decisions actively, every time we think about the cup of coffee, we say, "How much will I… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
It was a conscious decision on my part to take up fewer films. And if you're not seen that often on screen, nobody calls… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
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