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Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?
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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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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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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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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No court can make time stand still.
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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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In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.
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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 simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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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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It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
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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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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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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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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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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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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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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