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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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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 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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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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No court can make time stand still.
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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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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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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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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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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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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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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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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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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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