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Louis D. Brandeis Quotes


An Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents who raised him in a secular mode. He enrolled at Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with the highest grade average in the college’s history.

Here are some famous quotes by Louis D. Brandeis.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

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

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

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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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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.

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No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

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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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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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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.