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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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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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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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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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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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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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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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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.
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The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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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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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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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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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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