“The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and se...” — Felix Frankfurter Quote

“The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.”

“Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.”

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

“The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.”

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

“As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.”

“Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.”

“Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.”

“It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State.”

“I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.”

“One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.”