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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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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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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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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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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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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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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
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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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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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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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No court can make time stand still.
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