Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

American - Judge | November 13, 1856 - October 5, 1941

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

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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.

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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.

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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

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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.

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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.

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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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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.

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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

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