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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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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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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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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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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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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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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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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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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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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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