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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Felix Frankfurter
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Felix Frankfurter
Age: 82 †
Born: 1882
Born: November 15
Died: 1965
Died: February 22
Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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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.
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One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.
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It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
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While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.
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It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of laws to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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There is torture of mind as well as body the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
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