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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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The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. – Felix Frankfurter

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Constitution
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. – Felix Frankfurter

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power
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One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance. – Elbert Hubbard

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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesnt feel like it. – Alistair Cooke

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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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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. – John Gay

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