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
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases,
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.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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.
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.
The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.
It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.