The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
From Felix Frankfurter
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
There can be no security where there is fear.
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
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.
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
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