"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."
-Louis D. Brandeis
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"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.“
-Louis D. Brandeis
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