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
In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
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.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
Democracy is moral before it is political.
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
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.
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.
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
The most important thing we do is not doing.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
The US States are our laboratories of democracy.