Felix Frankfurter Quotes
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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.
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After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, nor a super-legal-aid bureau.
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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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In any event, mere speed is not a test of justice. Deliberate speed is. Deliberate speed takes time. But it is time well spent.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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There can be no security where there is fear.
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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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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.
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In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.
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After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.