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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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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
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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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While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.
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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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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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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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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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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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No court can make time stand still.
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