WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:29:44 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg beneficent – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Brandeis, Louis -- Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 438 (1928) [dissent] https://wist.info/brandeis-louis/948/ https://wist.info/brandeis-louis/948/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=948 Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.


Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American lawyer, jurist, activist; US Supreme Court Justice (1916–39)
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