Quotes by Frankfurter, Felix

"To some lawyers, all facts are created equal."

Frankfurter, Felix on facts   

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

Frankfurter, Felix on gratitude   

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

Frankfurter, Felix on precedents   

"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."

Frankfurter, Felix on professions and professionals   

"There can be no security where there is fear."

Frankfurter, Felix on security   

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

Frankfurter, Felix on character   

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

Frankfurter, Felix on wisdom   

"The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life."

Frankfurter, Felix on constitutions   

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

Frankfurter, Felix on uncategorised   

"If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. "

Frankfurter, Felix on uncategorised