Felix Frankfurter

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

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

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

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.