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

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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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