Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Louis D. Brandeis More Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis More Quotes From Louis D. Brandeis We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force. Louis D. Brandeis deny lost time Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government. Louis D. Brandeis menace government hate No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition. Louis D. Brandeis regulation competition liberty History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious. Louis D. Brandeis obvious unions two There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting. Louis D. Brandeis rewriting good-writing writing The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. Louis D. Brandeis unions wages long In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. Louis D. Brandeis differentiation progress lying We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor. Louis D. Brandeis gains politics wisdom The US States are our laboratories of democracy. Louis D. Brandeis laboratory democracy states I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part Louis D. Brandeis human-experience giving thinking There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. Louis D. Brandeis purchasers innocent finance The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use. Louis D. Brandeis communication law air Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Louis D. Brandeis publicity disease social Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man. Louis D. Brandeis success-or-failure enterprise men Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. Louis D. Brandeis substitutes initiative judgement What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen. Louis D. Brandeis citizens office important Sunshine is the best disinfectant Louis D. Brandeis investing sunshine People fear witches, and burn women. Louis D. Brandeis libertarian liberty people Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. Louis D. Brandeis belligerence neutrality sin 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. Louis D. Brandeis errors politics wisdom
