Quote#Politics & Power
Public discussion is a political duty
Quote byLouis Brandeis · 1856–1941
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Judicial opinions, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 375 (1927), at 375-376. In this case, in which the Court upheld a California anti-Communist statute, Brandeis, writing in a concurrence joined by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., concurred in the judgment but not in the reasoning.
English (original)
public discussion is a political duty
— Louis Brandeis
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