All Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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Politics
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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
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Politics
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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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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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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.
Louis D. Brandeis in
Government
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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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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
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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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We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
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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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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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