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Publicity 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. Brandeis The federal Constitution is perhaps the greatest of human experiments.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational free.
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Democracy is moral before it is political.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.
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.
The right to be alone - the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
There is in most Americans some spark of idealism, which can be fanned into a flame. It takes sometimes a divining rod to find what it is; but when found, and that means often, when disclosed to the owners, the results are often most extraordinary.
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.
Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
There must be reasonable restrictions upon competition else we shall see competition destroyed.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
Democracy substitutes self-restraint for external restraint. It is more difficult to maintain than to achieve.
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
Getting an advantage at the expense of somebody else--that really is what graft is.
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Discrimination is the act of treating differently two persons or things, under like circumstances.
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Self-respect and prosperity are the most effective guardians of morals.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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