The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The makers of our Constitution . . . 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 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
