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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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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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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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