Felix Frankfurter's Quotes

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Felix Frankfurter

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

Felix Frankfurter

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