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I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

— Felix Frankfurter Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960)

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The indispensable judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

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