More from Felix Frankfurter

  1. The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
  2. Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
  3. 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 tyrann…
  4. Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
  5. Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
  6. 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 cher…
  7. Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
  8. 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 m…

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