Quotes by Felix Frankfurter
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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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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 ...
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards
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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.
