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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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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 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 court can make time stand still.
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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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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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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