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
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases,
No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.
There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.
There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.
If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.