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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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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Vienna
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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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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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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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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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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 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 court can make time stand still.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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There is torture of mind as well as body the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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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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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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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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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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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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