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Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962, and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court.

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

Free, Freedom, Liberty, Mean, Press, Society

There can be no security where there is fear.

Fear, Security

It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.

Avoid, Errors, Giving, Judging, Persist, Unknown

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Created, Equal, Facts, Feet, Law, Lawyers

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

Dynamo, Expression, Greed, Self, System, Types

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

Court, Entitled, Fitness, Judicial, Prior, Zero

Ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system -- a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.

Accusatorial, Accused, Coercion, Guilt, Mouths, System

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.

Depends, Law, Matter, Tools, Understanding, Work

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

Expression, Hero, Heroes, Pursued, Truth

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

Achievement, Democracy, Endeavor, Goal, Safe

Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

Body, Judiciary, Law, Laymen, Two

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

Appeals, Electorate, Informed, Militant

A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.

Begins, Expression, Felicity, Ideas, Lazy, Life

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.

History, Liberty, Light, Political, Rights

No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.

Citizen, Important, Land, Office

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

Day, Judicial, May, Order, Yesterday

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

Harvard, Know, Law, School, Title, Titles

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

Involving, Nice, People, Political, Say

The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.

Direction, Drawing, Lines, Policy, Sake

No court can make time stand still.

Court, Make, Making Time, Stand, Stills, Time

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