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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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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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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
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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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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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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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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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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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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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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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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
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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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