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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 - February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
It (government) is neither business nor technology nor applied science (It is) one of the subtlest of the arts since it is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
Selfishness is the dynamo of our economic system...which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self- expression.
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.
There can be no security where there is fear.
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