Louis Brandeis Quote

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


dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. United States (1928)


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

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

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

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