For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.


A Heritage For All Who Love The Law 51 ABAJ 330 (1965); quoted by United States Senator Howell Heflin during the confirmation debate for Justice David Souter, on September 24, 1990, S13540.

Felix Frankfurter Quotes

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians -...

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians -...

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians -...

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians -...