“Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.”

Felix Frankfurter

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About Felix Frankfurter

Jurist American

Felix Frankfurter was an Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1962. A prominent advocate of judicial restraint, he...

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