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Louis D. Brandeis
16 quotes
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.”