Quote by Felix Frankfurter
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power fr

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

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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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USA Patriotic
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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 mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. – Felix Frankfurter

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strength
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West

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power

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. – Swami Vivekananda

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power

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. – Nikola Tesla

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power

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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power

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My past is my wisdom to use today… my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. – Gene Oliver

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Future

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. – Ludwig Erhard

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Art

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. – Ronald Reagan

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God

Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

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Action