Louis D. Brandeis

Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They…

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

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

There are no shortcuts in evolution…

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s…

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

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in…

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable…

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they…

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

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