The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power. - Felix Frankfurter
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.
- Felix Frankfurter
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too e… - Felix Frankfurter
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too e…
Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else. - Felix Frankfurter
Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. - Felix Frankfurter
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic societ… - Felix Frankfurter
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic societ…
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. - Felix Frankfurter
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people. - Felix Frankfurter
It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. - Felix Frankfurter
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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 oc… - Felix Frankfurter
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 oc…
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