Felix Frankfurter

Quotes

• “The Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.”
• “In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.”
• “The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.”
• “To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.”
• “National unity is the basis of national security. To deny the legislature the right to select appropriate means for its attainment presents a totally different order of problem from that of the propriety of subordinating the possible ugliness of littered streets to the free expression opinion through handbills.”
• “Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.”

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