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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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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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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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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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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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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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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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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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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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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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A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not, on another occasion, indulge its own will.
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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 ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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