13 Quotes & Sayings By Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter served as a justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962. He served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1939 until 1956, when he became a justice. Frankfurter was a member of the Harvard Law School faculty from 1907 until 1932 and served as Dean of the Law School from 1932 until 1939. He continued to teach at Harvard until his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1939.

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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 made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. Felix Frankfurter
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Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. Felix Frankfurter
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The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions. Felix Frankfurter
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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 tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled undisciplined feeling. Felix Frankfurter
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To some lawyers all facts are created equal. Felix Frankfurter
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people. Felix Frankfurter
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. Felix Frankfurter
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything. Felix Frankfurter
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. Felix Frankfurter
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. Felix Frankfurter
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. Felix Frankfurter
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. Felix Frankfurter