“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.”—Associate
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, concurring opinion in Whitney v. California (1927)
(The accompanying photograph of Justice Brandeis,
ca. 1916, by Harris & Ewing, comes from the Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division.)
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