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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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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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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 narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of laws to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.
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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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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.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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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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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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