Felix Frankfurter Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Attitude, Moving, Passion

  Felix Frankfurter, Philip B. Kurland (1970). “Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution”, Belknap Press

• 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.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Reading, Justice, Decision

  "Parliamentary Affairs". "The Supreme Court", Volume 3, No. 1, Winter 1949.

• 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.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Truth, Hero, Expression

• A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not, on another occasion, indulge its own will.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Yield, Practice, Justice

  "American Federation of Labor (AFL) v. American Sash & Door Co., 335 U.S. 538". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 3, 1949.

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