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In law also the emphasis makes the song.

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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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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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No court can make time stand still.
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It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
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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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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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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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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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
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Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.
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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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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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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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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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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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