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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 simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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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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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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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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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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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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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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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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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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If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
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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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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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