Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

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Louis D. Brandeis was a 19th-century us supreme court justice from 1916 to 1939. 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
  • Fear — Understanding and overcoming the anxieties that hold us back
  • Alone — Solitude, independence, and the experience of being alone

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