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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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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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The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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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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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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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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We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.
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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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