While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.
Felix FrankfurterOne is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
Felix FrankfurterI 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.
Felix FrankfurterIt is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.
Felix FrankfurterFreedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.
Felix Frankfurter