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Felix Frankfurter

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


— Felix Frankfurter


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


— Felix Frankfurter


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


— Felix Frankfurter


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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.


— Felix Frankfurter


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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.


— Felix Frankfurter


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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.


— Felix Frankfurter


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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.


— Felix Frankfurter


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I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.


— Felix Frankfurter


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


— Felix Frankfurter


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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.


— Felix Frankfurter


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Frankfurter's ideological opponents would leave the room or read their mail while he lectured. Roosevelt requested that Karski meet with Justice Frankfurter as it would be of vital concern for Frankfurter himself a Jew to be apprised of the horrors befalling his fellow Jews in Poland. He also examined the copper industry in Arizona where industry bosses solved industrial relations problems by having more than 1000 strikers forcibly deported to New Mexico.

Felix Frankfurter (November 15 1882 – February 22 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He graduated from Harvard Law School and was active politically helping to found the American Civil Liberties Union. He was a friend and adviser of President Franklin Roosevelt who appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1939.

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