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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 mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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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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