Felix Frankfurter Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.”

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

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

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

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

“There can be no security where there is fear.”

“As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.”

“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.”

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