Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
Felix FrankfurterWe forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
Felix FrankfurterAnswers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
Felix FrankfurterIt is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.
Felix FrankfurterIt is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.
Felix Frankfurter