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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Real, Loss, Government

  "Priebe & Sons., Inc. v. United States, 332 U.S. 407". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. November 17, 1947.

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• Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

  Felix Frankfurter

  Sports, Wind, Doctrine

  "West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 14, 1943.

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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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