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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 real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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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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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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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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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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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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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
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