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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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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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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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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
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Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?
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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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It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
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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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Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.
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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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No court can make time stand still.
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The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.
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