Best Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis (Top 10)
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
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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 both.
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
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More Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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Privacy is the right to be alone—the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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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.
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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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There are no shortcuts in evolution.
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