WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:58:57 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg legal process – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Frankfurter, Felix -- United States v. United Mine Workers, 330 U.S. 258, 312 (1947) [concurring] https://wist.info/frankfurter-felix/4877/ https://wist.info/frankfurter-felix/4877/#respond Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:58:45 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=4877 In our country, law is not a body of technicalities in the keeping of specialists or in the service of any special interest. There can be no free society without law administered through an independent judiciary. If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.


Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American jurist, teacher; US Supreme Court Justice (1939–62)
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