Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

- Felix Frankfurter

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

- Felix Frankfurter

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.

- Felix Frankfurter

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

- Felix Frankfurter

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

- Felix Frankfurter

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

- Felix Frankfurter

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

- Felix Frankfurter

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

- Felix Frankfurter

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

- Felix Frankfurter

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

- Felix Frankfurter

There can be no security where there is fear.

- Felix Frankfurter

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

- Felix Frankfurter

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

- Felix Frankfurter

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

- Felix Frankfurter

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

- Felix Frankfurter

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

- Felix Frankfurter

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

- Felix Frankfurter

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

- Felix Frankfurter

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

- Felix Frankfurter

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

- Felix Frankfurter