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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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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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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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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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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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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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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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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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No court can make time stand still.
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We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.
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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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While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.
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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
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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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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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