"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
-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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"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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"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."
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