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“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.”

Louis D. Brandeis · Experience

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Louis D. Brandeis

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

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Louis D. Brandeis

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.

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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.

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Louis D. Brandeis

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.

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