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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.

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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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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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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Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.
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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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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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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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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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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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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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No court can make time stand still.
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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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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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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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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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