"...disdain of arrogance and self-righteousness, a preference for truculent independence over prudent deference and conformity - these were the feelings that shaped his outlook on life."
— Deference

January 1, 1970

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Justice Robert H. Jackson, in Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution, p. 1954