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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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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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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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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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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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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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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
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The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
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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 no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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No court can make time stand still.
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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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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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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 ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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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