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Louis D. Brandeis

  • 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.... Louis D. Brandeis {view}
  • Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.... Louis D. Brandeis {view}
  • 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.... Louis D. Brandeis {view}