4 Quotes & Sayings By Irving R Kaufman

Irving R. Kaufman was born in New York City, where he attended DeWitt Clinton High School. After serving two years in the Navy, he began his career as a journalist, working for the New York Herald Tribune and the Herald Examiner. He was also an editor of the New York World Telegram, and worked for Time magazine for twenty-five years Read more

During World War II, he worked with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) until his retirement in 1962. He died in 1974.

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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. Irving R. Kaufman
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. Irving R. Kaufman
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. Irving R. Kaufman