Famous Quotes / Louis D. Brandeis
19 Quotations by Louis D. Brandeis
- 1. America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted ...
- 2. Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
- 3. Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes ...
- 4. I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, ma ...
- 5. If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you
- 6. In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental ...
- 7. Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders ...
- 8. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
- 9. Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise ...
- 10. No one can really pull you up very high -- you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet ...
- 11. No one can really pull you up very high -- you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet ...
- 12. Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.
- 13. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people ...
- 14. Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, ...
- 15. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but wi ...
- 16. The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized ma ...
- 17. Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to ...
- 18. To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that th ...
- 19. We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a fe ...