Justice Felix Frankfurter Quotes

#1. It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

Sam Brownback

#2. Useful, but not one of the star players A good reliable understudy, if you like. It is a good one to use to give some of the A listers a day off to confuse the germs and inflammation a bit.

Elizabeth Ashley

#3. Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. I secured a doughnut and coffee. I checked with Karrin and Valmont. Neither wanted to save the doughnuts from Nicodemus's corruptive influence. Not everyone can be a crusader like me.

Jim Butcher

#5. [The Rule:] Just do the next thing you're reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do.

Clare De Graaf

#6. 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

#7. We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

Jay McShann