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Quote by Felix Frankfurter
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power fr

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. – Felix Frankfurter

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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. – Felix Frankfurter

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Constitution
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Felix Frankfurter
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. – Felix Frankfurter

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Freedom
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. – Erich Fromm

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. – Honore de Balzac

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The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. – Dan Quayle

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I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I dont think it is the governments rule. – Arlen Specter

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