Popular Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

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

  Felix Frankfurter#Power 81

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

  Felix Frankfurter#Government 69

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• To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

  Felix Frankfurter#Legal 68

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

  Felix Frankfurter 67

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• It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

  Felix Frankfurter#Uncategorized 66

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

  Felix Frankfurter#History 59

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• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  Felix Frankfurter#Effort 54

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

  Felix Frankfurter#Gratitude 54

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• 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.

  Felix Frankfurter#Constitution 52

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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.

  Felix Frankfurter#Controversies 52

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