The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
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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 three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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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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