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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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Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
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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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It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
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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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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.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.
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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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