Felix Frankfurter Quotes

American - Judge | November 15, 1882 - February 22, 1965

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

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There can be no security where there is fear.

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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

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I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

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

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

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