Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writingThe greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.Louis BrandeisOlmstead v. United States · 1928★ 6.9
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.John A. SheddSalt from My Attic · 1928★ 6.0
Essay · Philosophical literatureThe opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.Bertrand RussellOn the Value of Scepticism · 1928★ 5.2
Song · Great American songbookBirds do it, bees do it, Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.Cole PorterLet's Do It · 1928★ 5.1
Nature writing · Autobiography and memoirThe world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.Henry Beston1928★ 5.0
Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.H.L. Mencken1928★ 4.3
PoemCourage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things.Amelia Earhart1928★ 3.7
Essay · Philosophical literatureEvery man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.Bertrand Russell1928★ 3.6
Essay · Philosophical literatureIt is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.Bertrand Russell1928★ 3.6
Short storyThe most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.H.P. Lovecraft1928★ 3.6
PoemEverything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.W.B. Yeats1928★ 3.6
Religious literatureThose whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder.The Book of Common Prayer1928★ 3.6
Essay · Philosophical literatureNext to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.Bertrand Russell1928★ 3.5
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writingThey conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.Louis BrandeisOlmstead v. United States · 1928★ 3.5
EssayI am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes... I do not weep at the world-I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.Zora Neale Hurston1928★ 3.5
EssayThe safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.Alfred North Whitehead1928★ 3.5
Religious literatureEarth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life.The Book of Common Prayer1928★ 3.5
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