In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.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
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
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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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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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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.
Louis D. Brandeis
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