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

Louis D. Brandeis · Politics

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Louis D. Brandeis

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Courage

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.

Loneliness

Louis D. Brandeis

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Wisdom

Louis D. Brandeis

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Science