Felix Frankfurter Quote

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.


Reply to counsel who said a challenge from the bench was just a matter of semantics, Reader's Digest (June 1964).


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...

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...

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...

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...