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• The most important office ... that of a private citizen. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
  -- Justice Louis D. Brandei...
• Arguments seem futile to me, for behind every argument I have ever heard lies the astounding ignorance of someone.
  -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)...
• America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.
  It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered....
• Our government...teaches the whole people by its example.
  If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law...
• For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
  In the clamour in which we live, love is impossible and justice does not suffice....
• 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.
  -- US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandei...
• 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 evilminded rulers....