“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.”
— Louis D. Brandeis
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“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.”
— Louis D. Brandeis
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
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“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.”
— Louis D. Brandeis
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
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“In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.”
— Louis D. Brandeis
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“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.”
— Louis D. Brandeis
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
Category: government
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