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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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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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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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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 nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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No court can make time stand still.
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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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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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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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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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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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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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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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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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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