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 Frankfurter More Quotes by Felix Frankfurter More Quotes From Felix Frankfurter Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light. Felix Frankfurter light guarantees mean What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility. Felix Frankfurter passion attitude moving Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. Felix Frankfurter end free freedom society As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. Felix Frankfurter i-am constitution matter writing The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. Felix Frankfurter mode which inevitable effort It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. Felix Frankfurter take tomorrow may today It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach. Felix Frankfurter man force police mind
