Quotes by Frankfurter, Felix

The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic m >>

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. >>

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely >>

Quotations about Constitutions

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitima >>

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. >>

The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic m >>

The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

Frankfurter, Felix