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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
— Felix Frankfurter
Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
— Felix Frankfurter
Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
— Felix Frankfurter
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
— Felix Frankfurter
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
— Felix Frankfurter
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
— Felix Frankfurter
The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
— Felix Frankfurter
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
— Felix Frankfurter
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
— Felix Frankfurter
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
— Felix Frankfurter
There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter,
— Vincent Price
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
— Felix Frankfurter
Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
— Felix Frankfurter
It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.
— Felix Frankfurter
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
— Felix Frankfurter
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
— Felix Frankfurter
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
— Felix Frankfurter
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.
— Felix Frankfurter
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
— Felix Frankfurter
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
— Felix Frankfurter
The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them
— Felix Frankfurter
The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
— Felix Frankfurter
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
— Felix Frankfurter
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
— Felix Frankfurter
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
— Felix Frankfurter
There can be no security where there is fear.
— Felix Frankfurter
There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
— Felix Frankfurter
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
— Felix Frankfurter
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
— Felix Frankfurter
Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.
— Felix Frankfurter
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
— 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
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
— Felix Frankfurter
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
— 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
No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
— Felix Frankfurter
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
— Felix Frankfurter
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
— Felix Frankfurter
To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
— Felix Frankfurter
In law also the emphasis makes the song.
— Felix Frankfurter
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
— Felix Frankfurter
One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
— Felix Frankfurter
The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.
— 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
