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Felix Frankfurter on Freedom

1882–1965 Austria

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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. And the effective administration of criminal justice hardly requires disregard of fair procedures imposed by law.

Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Felix Frankfurter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.