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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.
By Felix Frankfurter
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
By Felix Frankfurter
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
By Felix Frankfurter
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.
By Felix Frankfurter
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
By Felix Frankfurter
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
By Felix Frankfurter
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late
By Felix Frankfurter
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
By Felix Frankfurter