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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.
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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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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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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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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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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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.
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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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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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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 mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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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 real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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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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