Felix Frankfurter

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

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

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

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.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

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

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.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.