Maxioms by Louis D. Brandeis
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.
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens read more
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; read more
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.
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.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
