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After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
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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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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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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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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