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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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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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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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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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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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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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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.
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One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
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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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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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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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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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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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