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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 February 22, 1965) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Frankfurter, Felix.

"To some lawyers, all facts are created equal."

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"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep."

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"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."

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

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"There can be no security where there is fear."

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"Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man."

Frankfurter, Felix on Character
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"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."

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"The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life."

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

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"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 an essential part of the democratic process. "

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