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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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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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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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
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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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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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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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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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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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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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No court can make time stand still.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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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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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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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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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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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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