Louis D. Brandeis

Quotes

• “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men...”
• “The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ide...”
• “Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit ...”
• “To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may com...”
• “Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt ...”
• “Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. ...”
• “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of educati...”
• “America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it ...”
• “Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of hap...”
• “Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they ...”
• “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 ...”
• “If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”
• “The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”
• “The most important office is that of private citizen.”
• “Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.”
• “There are no shortcuts in evolution.”