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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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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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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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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 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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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
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Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.
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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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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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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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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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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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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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After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
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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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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of 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 real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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