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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 mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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