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Inspirational Quotes by Felix Frankfurter
- Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
- There can be no security where there is fear.
- Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
- I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
- Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
- It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
- Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
- The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.
- Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
- No court can make time stand still.
- The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
- To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
- No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
- After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
- The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
- Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
- We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
- Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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