Louis D. Brandeis Quotes About First Amendment
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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.
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It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.
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Louis D. Brandeis
- Born: November 13, 1856
- Died: October 5, 1941
- Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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