We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. – Felix Frankfurter
The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. – Felix Frankfurter
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. – Felix Frankfurter