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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

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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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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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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 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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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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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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No court can make time stand still.
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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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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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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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Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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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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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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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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There is no inevitability in history except as men make 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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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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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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