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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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 touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
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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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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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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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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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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 Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
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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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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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In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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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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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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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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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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