Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)

Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

Quotes

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.