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

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

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

- Felix Frankfurter

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

- 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…

- Felix Frankfurter

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

- Felix Frankfurter

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

- 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…

- Felix Frankfurter