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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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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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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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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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 is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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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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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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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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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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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
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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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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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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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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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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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