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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.
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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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 mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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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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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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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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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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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.
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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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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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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No court can make time stand still.
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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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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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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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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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