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Brandeis

To quote Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis over and over and ...

Submitted by Roanman on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 07:38

 

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

 

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

 

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.

 

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

 

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

 

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.

 

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

 

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.

 

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

 

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

 

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

 

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