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Results of search for Author: Louis D. Brandeis - Page 1 of 1
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Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
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Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
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Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
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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.
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Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
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Justice Louis D. Brandeis
I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part
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Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

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 insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
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Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941), (Supreme Court Justice) 1928
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
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