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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Louis D Brandeis
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Louis D Brandeis
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. Louis D Brandeis
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. Louis D Brandeis
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. Louis D Brandeis
In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure. Louis D Brandeis
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. Louis D Brandeis
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. Louis D Brandeis
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. Louis D Brandeis
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. Louis D Brandeis
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country. Louis D Brandeis