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 right to be alone / the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
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.
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . . They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty . . . that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be the fundamental principle of the American government.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.
The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
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.