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Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.
— Louis D. Brandeis
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. — Louis D. Brandeis
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.
— Louis D. Brandeis
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
— Louis D. Brandeis
To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
— Louis D. Brandeis
There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant
— Louis D. Brandeis
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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.
— Louis D. Brandeis
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Crime is contagious ... if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
— Louis D. Brandeis
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force ...
— Louis D. Brandeis
If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.
— Louis D. Brandeis
In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
— Louis D. Brandeis
I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part
— Louis D. Brandeis
The most important office ... that of private citizen.
— Louis D. Brandeis
I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.
— Louis D. Brandeis
People fear witches, and burn women.
— Louis D. Brandeis
History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.
— Louis D. Brandeis
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
— Louis D. Brandeis
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
— Louis D. Brandeis
No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Sunshine is the best disinfectant
— Louis D. Brandeis
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Men feared witches and burned women.
— Louis D. Brandeis
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.
— Louis D. Brandeis
True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein
If you would venture, let your mind be bold ... not reckless but bold.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
— Louis D. Brandeis
If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
— Louis D. Brandeis
I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!
— Caroline Leavitt
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The most important thing we do is not doing.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The US States are our laboratories of democracy.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Where otherwise words were, flow discoveries, freed all surprised out of the fruit's flesh. RAINER MARIA RILKE
— Gayle Brandeis
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
— Louis D. Brandeis
In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.
— Louis D. Brandeis
![Brandeis Quotes By Jeffrey Rosen: [Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/brandeis-quotes-by-jeffrey-rosen-1315843.jpg "Brandeis Quotes By Jeffrey Rosen: [Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech")
[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.
— Jeffrey Rosen
Democracy is moral before it is political.
— Louis D. Brandeis
A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
— Gayle Brandeis
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The most important political office is that of private citizen.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Louis Brandeis was not a racist like Woodrow Wilson.
— Jeffrey Rosen
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and aphoristic.
— Jeffrey Rosen
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[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them.
— Jeffrey Rosen
There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.
— Louis D. Brandeis
