Felix Frankfurter - Judicial Quotes

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The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

Felix Frankfurter

Judicial judgment must take deep account... of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Felix Frankfurter

After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, not a super-legal-aid bureau.

Felix Frankfurter

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.

Felix Frankfurter

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

Felix Frankfurter

To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

Felix Frankfurter