102 Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

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.

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.

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 cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling