The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. Louis D. Brandeis More Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis More Quotes From Louis D. Brandeis If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. Louis D. Brandeis hard-lifelife-is-hardmotivational There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us. Louis D. Brandeis disasterlandmother The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it. Louis D. Brandeis taxesprivilegepay At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. Louis D. Brandeis governmentlawlying The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these. Louis D. Brandeis governmentsecrethome 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. Louis D. Brandeis ownershipseparationwealth 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 governmentordermean 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 humorousfoodfunny If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. Louis D. Brandeis lightmindschool The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. Louis D. Brandeis yieldlogicreality The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people. Louis D. Brandeis shadeamericapeople Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties. Louis D. Brandeis independencefinalsmen There is no great writing, only great rewriting. Louis D. Brandeis great-writingrewritingwriting Democracy is moral before it is political. Louis D. Brandeis moraldemocracypolitical To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists. Louis D. Brandeis zionistjewbe-good Men feared witches and burned women. Louis D. Brandeis burnedwitchmen If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold. Louis D. Brandeis recklessventuremind The most important thing we do is not doing. Louis D. Brandeis important-thingsimportant Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. Louis D. Brandeis afterlifemenlong The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism. Louis D. Brandeis wisdomdoepeople
