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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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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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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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No court can make time stand still.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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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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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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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 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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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.
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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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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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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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