Felix Frankfurter Quotes - Page 4

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• Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, History, House

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• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Events, Facts, Consideration

  "Phelps Dodge Corp. v. NLRB, 313 U.S. 177". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 28, 1941.

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• There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Inevitability

  American Society for Legal History. Northeastern States Branch, Morris D. Forkosch, Felix Frankfurter (1966). “Essays in legal history in honor of Felix Frankfurter”, MICHIE

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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 also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Use, Logic

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

  Felix Frankfurter

  Principles, Controversy, Ifs

  Felix Frankfurter, Philip B. Kurland (1970). “Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution”, Belknap Press

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• Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Games, Chess, Ends

  Indianapolis v. Chase Nat'l Bank, 314 U.S. 63, 69, 1941.

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• In law also the emphasis makes the song.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Song, Law, Emphasis

  Felix Frankfurter, Philip B. Kurland (1970). “Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution”, Belknap Press

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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. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Attitude, Moving, Passion

  Felix Frankfurter, Philip B. Kurland (1970). “Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution”, Belknap Press

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