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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.

Felix Frankfurter

It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.

Felix Frankfurter

There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter

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Born: November 15, 1882

Died: February 22, 1965 (aged 82)

Bio: Felix Frankfurter was a jurist, who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna and immigrated to New York at the age of 12.

Known for:

The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti (1927)
The Business of the Supreme Court (1927)
From the diaries of Felix Frankfurter
Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court (1938)

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