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Quote by Felix Frankfurter
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. – 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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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. – Felix Frankfurter

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My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. – Val Saintsbury

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He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“Our country, right or wrong.” When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. – Carl Schurz

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Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. – Giuseppe Mazzini

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