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Louis D. Brandeis

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
— Louis D. Brandeis men
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.
— Louis D. Brandeis wealth
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
— Louis D. Brandeis desire
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
— Louis D. Brandeis fear
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
— Louis D. Brandeis world
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
— Louis D. Brandeis evolution
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
— Louis D. Brandeis people
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
— Louis D. Brandeis life
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
— Louis D. Brandeis purpose
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
— Louis D. Brandeis life
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
— Louis D. Brandeis men
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
— Louis D. Brandeis men
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.
— Louis D. Brandeis men
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
— Louis D. Brandeis zen
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.
— Louis D. Brandeis happiness
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
— Louis D. Brandeis mind
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
— Louis D. Brandeis wisdom
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
— Louis D. Brandeis time
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.
— Louis D. Brandeis world
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
— Louis D. Brandeis words
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
— Louis D. Brandeis men
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.
— Louis D. Brandeis happiness
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.
— Louis D. Brandeis man
However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment.
— Louis D. Brandeis war
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.
— Louis D. Brandeis language

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