All Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
- We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Both
- Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to… Anarchy
- If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. Desire
- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. Anti War
- Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. Been
- Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Beneficent
- Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage… Belief
- If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. Bold
- The most important political office is that of the private citizen. Citizen
- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech… Alone
- To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to… Administration
- The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. Logic
- Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most… Best
- In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. Action
- Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. Initiative
- Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. Afterlife
- America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and… Acted
- I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three… Abhor
- If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be… Applied
- 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 naturally… Alert