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

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

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 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...

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...

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.

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 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 logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

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

I am beyond logic and rationality.

I am beyond logic and rationality.

Games will be played, hearts will be broken, tears will fall, people will change and...

Games will be played, hearts will be broken, tears will fall, people will change and...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the...

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the...

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end

It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his...

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his...

The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our...

The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our...

Logic is the anatomy of thought

Logic is the anatomy of thought

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.