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Men Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis
- 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…
- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
- 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…
- Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
- I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three…
- 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…
- The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as…
- The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.
- Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . .…
- The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights…
- The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good…
- Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the…
- It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
- Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other,…
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