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One Quotes by Felix Frankfurter
- Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a…
- Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
- One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
- If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is…
- For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all…
- 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 disappointments…
- 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...…
- If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in…
- Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
- Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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