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date: 20 May 2025

Louis D. Brandeis 1856–1941
American jurist 

  1. If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.
    dissenting opinion in Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan (1924)
  2. Those who won our independence…believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
    in Whitney v California (1927)
  3. Fear of serious injury alone cannot 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 fears.
    in Whitney v. California (1927)
  4. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
    dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. United States (1928)
  5. 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.
    Other People's Money (1914)