Sunlight is the best disinfectant
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
--Justice Louis Brandeis, Other People’s Money, and How the Bankers Use It, 1933.
“Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence....
“Order cannot be secured merely through fear of punishment for its infraction. The path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and the fitting remedy for evil counsel is good ones.”
--Justice Louis Brandeis, Whitney v.
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.”
--Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v.
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