We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.
Louis D. BrandeisIf we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]
Stichwörter: liberty freedom government civil-rights privacy encroachment policy
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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.
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
Louis D. BrandeisStichwörter: openness
In every such case, the individual is entitled to decide that which is his... shall be given to the public.
Louis D. BrandeisPublicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
Louis D. BrandeisStichwörter: life
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. BrandeisStichwörter: optimism tenacity hopeful
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."
[Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)]
Stichwörter: liberty censorship free-speech freedom-of-speech argument
If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.
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