Felix Frankfurter Liberty Quotations

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.

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

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.