"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
-Louis D. Brandeis
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"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
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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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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
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"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."
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"There are no shortcuts in evolution."
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"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."
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"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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