Felix Frankfurter Court Quotations

If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority

In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions

No court can make time stand still.

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