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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

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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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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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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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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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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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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In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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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 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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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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No court can make time stand still.
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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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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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A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not, on another occasion, indulge its own will.
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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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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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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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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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