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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

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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Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?
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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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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among 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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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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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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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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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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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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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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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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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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Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.
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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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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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