Quote by Felix Frankfurter
The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrins

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

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. – Felix Frankfurter

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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

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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. – Felix Frankfurter

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A Constitution should be short and obscure. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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There is a higher law than the Constitution. – William Seward

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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. – George Bernard Shaw

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