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.
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.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
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.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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.
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 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.