Freedom Quote by 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

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Men feared witches and burned women.

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The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden…

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Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

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We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

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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…

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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 government becomes a lawbreaker, 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…

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What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual…

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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all…

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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

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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…

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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of…

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