Felix Frankfurter

Judge

1882-11-15

Books by Felix Frankfurter

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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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.
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society
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