Felix Frankfurter Quotes

Morals are three-quarters manners.

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No single principle can answer all of life's complexities.

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

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Dissent is essential to an effective judiciary in a democratic society.

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I don't like a man to be efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

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

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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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We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

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