About Felix Frankfurter:
Felix Frankfurter was a jurist, who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna and immigrated to New York at the age of 12. He graduated from Harvard Law School and was active politically, helping to found the American Civil Liberties Union. He was a friend and adviser of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1939. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court for 23 years, and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court.
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix FrankfurterFreedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
Felix FrankfurterThe history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Felix FrankfurterIt must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
Felix FrankfurterGratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Felix Frankfurter