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.
"Felix Frankfurter" was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States/Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States/United States Supreme Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna and immigrated to New York at the age of 12. He graduated from Harvard Law School and was active politically, helping to found the American Civil Liberties Union. He was a friend and adviser of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1939. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court for 23 years, and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
To some lawyers all facts are created equal.
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