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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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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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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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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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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 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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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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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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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.
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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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