The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Quote by Louis D Brandeis

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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be...

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be...

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law...

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law...

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one...

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one...

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said...

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said...

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They...

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They...

If you want to be happy, be

If you want to be happy, be

So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds,...

So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds,...

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus...

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus...

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion...

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion...

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common...

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common...

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those...

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those...

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what...

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what...

There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing you are...

There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing you are...

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.