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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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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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It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of laws to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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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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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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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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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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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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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No court can make time stand still.
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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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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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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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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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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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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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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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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