Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
Top 54 wise famous quotes and sayings by Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force ...
I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.
We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.