23 Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

• There can be no security where there is fear.
• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
• To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
• Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
• We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
• Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
• The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
• The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
• The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
• Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
• Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
• Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
• The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
• It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
• Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
• Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
• I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
• Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
• It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
• It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
• 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.
• It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
• As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

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