Louis D. Brandeis Quotes About Freedom Of Speech
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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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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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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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No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.
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The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.
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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.
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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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