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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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.Louis D. Brandeis
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 the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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
Solitude is the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.
Louis D. Brandeis
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