Maxioms by Louis D. Brandeis
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It read more
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by read more
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
