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> [The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/the-mark-of-a-truly-civilized-man-is-confidence-in-the-strength-and/)

[Felix Frankfurter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-frankfurter/)

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## More by Felix Frankfurter

> [Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/future-lawyers-should-be-more-aware-that-law-is-not-a-system-of/)

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> [It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/it-is-important-not-to-give-the-appearance-of-a-predisposed-mind-and/)

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> [In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/in-the-first-place-lawyers-better-remember-they-are-human-beings-and/)

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> [The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/the-state-insists-that-by-thus-quarantining-the-general-reading/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/a-court-which-yields-to-the-popular-will-thereby-licenses-itself-to/)

[Felix Frankfurter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-frankfurter/)

> [It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/it-would-be-a-narrow-conception-of-jurisprudence-to-confine-the/)

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> [What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/what-becomes-decisive-to-a-justice-s-functioning-on-the-court-in-the/)

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> [We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/we-forget-that-the-most-successful-statesmen-have-been-professionals/)

[Felix Frankfurter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-frankfurter/)

> [Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/anybody-can-decide-a-question-if-only-a-single-principle-is-in/)

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> [The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/the-procrustean-bed-is-not-a-symbol-of-equality-it-is-no-less/)

[Felix Frankfurter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-frankfurter/)

> [The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/the-mark-of-a-truly-civilized-man-is-confidence-in-the-strength-and/)

[Felix Frankfurter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-frankfurter/)

> [We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/we-recognize-that-stare-decisis-embodies-an-important-social-policy/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/the-eternal-struggle-in-the-law-between-constancy-and-change-is/)

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> [It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/it-is-easy-to-make-light-of-insistence-on-scrupulous-regard-for-the/)

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> [I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/i-came-into-the-world-a-jew-and-although-i-did-not-live-my-life/)

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