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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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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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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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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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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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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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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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
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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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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.
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