Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.


Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 375 (1927)

Louis Brandeis Quotes

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government...

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government...

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government...

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government...