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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

Felix Frankfurter
Principles, Controversy, Ifs
Felix Frankfurter, Philip B. Kurland (1970). “Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution”, Belknap Press

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

Felix Frankfurter
Sports, Wind, Doctrine
"West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 14, 1943.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

Felix Frankfurter
Men, Inevitability
American Society for Legal History. Northeastern States Branch, Morris D. Forkosch, Felix Frankfurter (1966). “Essays in legal history in honor of Felix Frankfurter”, MICHIE

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

Felix Frankfurter
Men, History, House

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.

Felix Frankfurter
Law, Use, Logic

In law also the emphasis makes the song.

Felix Frankfurter
Song, Law, Emphasis
Felix Frankfurter, Philip B. Kurland (1970). “Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution”, Belknap Press

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

Felix Frankfurter
Events, Facts, Consideration
"Phelps Dodge Corp. v. NLRB, 313 U.S. 177". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 28, 1941.

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
Attitude, Moving, Passion
Felix Frankfurter, Philip B. Kurland (1970). “Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution”, Belknap Press

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