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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

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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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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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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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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 ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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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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We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.
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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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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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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
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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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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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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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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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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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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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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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