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 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis 3 Share Now -
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. - Louis D. Brandeis 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. - Louis D. Brandeis 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
