Book Quote by Felix Frankfurter

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

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

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

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

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

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

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

— Felix Frankfurter

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

— Felix Frankfurter

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

— Felix Frankfurter

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

— Felix Frankfurter

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

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