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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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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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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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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If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
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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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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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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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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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No court can make time stand still.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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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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Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
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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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