Louis D. Brandeis Quotes about Freedom

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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

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 the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Louis D. Brandeis

Freedom, Independent, Men

Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Louis D. Brandeis

Peace, Freedom, War

Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.

Louis D. Brandeis

Loyalty, Country, Freedom

"Schaefer v. United States, 251 U.S. 466". Dissenting opinion, 1920.

Louis D. Brandeis Quotes about Freedom

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