Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling
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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
In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions
Felix Frankfurter
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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Selfishness is the dynamo of our economic system...which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self- expression.
Felix Frankfurter
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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