It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
