We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
Felix FrankfurterWisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix FrankfurterStichwörter: philosophical
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 FrankfurterOnce the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.
Felix FrankfurterStichwörter: untied-states-v-witkovich
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
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