Quotes by : Felix Frankfurter

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

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in....

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

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

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial....

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

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason that's all we have....

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.