Equal Quote by Felix Frankfurter

“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.” quote by Felix Frankfurter — Download Open image

“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”

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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.

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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 law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it.…

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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

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I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of…

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This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace,…

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