“To some lawyers all facts are created equal.”
Felix Frankfurter“Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.”
Felix Frankfurter“To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.”
Felix Frankfurter“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”
Felix Frankfurter“Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.”
Felix Frankfurter“It simply is not true that war never settles anything.”
Felix Frankfurter“I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.”
Felix Frankfurter“Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled undisciplined feeling.”
Felix Frankfurter“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.”
Felix Frankfurter“To some lawyers all facts are created equal.”
Felix Frankfurter“The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.”
Felix Frankfurter