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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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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.
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There is torture of mind as well as body the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.
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No court can make time stand still.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
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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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It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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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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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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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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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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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
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