Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Louis D. BrandeisThe most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
Louis D. BrandeisThe best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
Louis D. BrandeisThe progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these.
Louis D. Brandeis