We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...
Louis D. Brandeis Quotations
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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.
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
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.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.