Felix Frankfurter

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

There can be no security where there is fear.

I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.