Quotes by : Louis D. Brandeis

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

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes....

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches....

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.....

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker,....

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the....

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted....

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes....

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.