Louis D. Brandeis | great
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
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Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis | government
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
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Louis D. Brandeis | government
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
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Louis D. Brandeis | government
Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.
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Louis D. Brandeis | fear
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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Louis D. Brandeis | experience
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
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Louis D. Brandeis | courage
Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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