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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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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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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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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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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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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
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Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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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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No court can make time stand still.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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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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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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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The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
Felix Frankfurter
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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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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