Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Louis D. Brandeis
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
Louis D. Brandeis
Privacy is the right to be alone–the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
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 become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
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
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.
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
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven\'s wonders.
Louis D. Brandeis