“All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.”
Other Felix Frankfurter Quotes
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
Felix Frankfurter 
55% of people like this quote
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.
Felix Frankfurter
55% of people like this quote
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
Felix Frankfurter
54% of people like this quote