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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 mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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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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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 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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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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No court can make time stand still.
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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 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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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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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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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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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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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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