Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

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

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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

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It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

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