Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Felix Frankfurter
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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.
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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.
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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