Felix Frankfurter

"Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable…"

"Morals are three-quarters manners."

"The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs."

"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don’t want to … turn my back on a great and noble heritage."

"No court can make time stand still."

"Emerson said to him, "Young man, have you read Plato?" Holmes said he hadn't. "You must. You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mank…"

"Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."

"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our peopl…"