Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

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Jurist · American · 1882–1965

American jurist (1882–1965)

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“After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, nor a super-legal-aid bureau.”
— Felix Frankfurter

“The indispensable judicial requisite is intellectual humility.”
— Felix Frankfurter

“A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will.”
— Felix Frankfurter