Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeiswas an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia, who raised him in a secular home. He attended Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with the highest grade average in the law school's history. Brandeis settled in Boston, where he founded a law firmand became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth13 November 1856
CountryUnited States of America
Louis D. Brandeis quotes about
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
The US States are our laboratories of democracy.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
The most important thing we do is not doing.
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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.
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.
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
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.
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.
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.