Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate. - Felix Frankfurter - Quotesmemo.com

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I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

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Felix Frankfurter

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

Appeals, Electorate, Informed, Militant

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The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig. . . The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children.

Book, Children, Insists, Reading, Welfare

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

Come, Disinterested, Doe, Fence, Force, Political

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.

Decision, Gather, Justice, Leave, Reading

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

Never Settle, Settles, Settling, Simply, True, War

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

Among, Bed, Inequality, Procrustean, Symbols

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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

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