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Quote by Felix Frankfurter
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professiona

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter

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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. – Felix Frankfurter

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

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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. – W. H. Auden

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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects. – Martin H. Fisher

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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth. – W. H. Auden

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Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong. – Stockwell Day

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