Felix Frankfurter Quotes

The course of decision in this Court has thus far jealously enforced the principle of a free society secured by the prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. Its safeguards are not to be worn away by a process of devitalizing interpretation.

Felix Frankfurter

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• I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Me
  • Decision

• I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Family
  • Decision
  • Thought

• A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Home
  • Society
  • Government

• When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Free
  • Yourself

• Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Consequences

• We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Free
  • Fight
  • Last

• My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Long
  • Live
  • Hope

• You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Help
  • Society
  • You

• Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Decision
  • End
  • February

• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Working

• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Political
  • Animal

• There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Free
  • Woman
  • Relationships

• When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Society

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • America
  • Society
  • Proud

• In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Free
  • Feel
  • London

• A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Democracy

• I've discovered that I can't trust the ratings board at all, because they have - to my mind - a perverted point of view about what's appropriate for children. They think that if you see any part of a male or female anatomy, we have to protect children from it, which is not true, and they think almost any level of violence is okay for children, which is absolutely not true... They're really off the mark.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Children

• Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Career
  • Journey
  • Stone

• My heart has become as hard as a city street,The horses trample upon it, it sings like iron,All day long and all night long they beat,They ring like the hooves of time.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Time
  • Long
  • Heart

• People will say what they want to say, and it's okay. And my life will go on, and I need to focus on my life. So, do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman? I sure hope I don't. I know I am.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• Columbus's doom-burdened caravels

  

  J. C. Squire
  • Land
  • Sailing
  • Columbus

• The course of decision in this Court has thus far jealously enforced the principle of a free society secured by the prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. Its safeguards are not to be worn away by a process of devitalizing interpretation.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Society
  • Free
  • Decision