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Quote by Felix Frankfurter
The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrins

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