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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

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Felix Frankfurter
Age: 82 †
Born: 1882
Born: November 15
Died: 1965
Died: February 22
Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.
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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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There is torture of mind as well as body the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
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It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.
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The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
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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.
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A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not, on another occasion, indulge its own will.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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