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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

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 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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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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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?
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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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Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.
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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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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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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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No court can make time stand still.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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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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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.
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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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