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“We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.” quote by Felix Frankfurter — Download Open image

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

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Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but…

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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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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…

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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 shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig...The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan…

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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,…

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It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and…

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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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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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We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological…

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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.

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“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our lives -- in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles -- we can forget our souls. We do not tend to them, as if…

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