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• Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
• The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
• Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is…
• Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
• It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of…
• Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which…
• The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
• Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first…
• Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
• There can be no security where there is fear.
• The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked…
• Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

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