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
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.
If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
People fear witches, and burn women.
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.
If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.