Crime is contagious…if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. — 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
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes… — 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… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them… — 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
