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The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
By Louis D. Brandeis
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
By Louis D. Brandeis
If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world,it will all be much simpler.
By Louis D. Brandeis
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
By Louis D. Brandeis
If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means 'to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal' would bring terrible retribution.
By Louis D. Brandeis
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...
By Louis D. Brandeis
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.
By Louis D. Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
By Louis D. Brandeis
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
By Louis D. Brandeis
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
By Louis D. Brandeis
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
By Louis D. Brandeis
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
By Louis D. Brandeis
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.
By Louis D. Brandeis
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.
By Louis D. Brandeis