Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

• There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

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• 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.

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

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• Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

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• Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

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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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• Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven’s wonders.

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• In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

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

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• 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.

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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.

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• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.

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• There are no shortcuts in evolution.

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

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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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• We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

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

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• Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Injustice

• To declare that the end justifies the means, to declare that the government may commit crimes, would bring terrible retribution.

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Louis D. Brandeis (25)

Birth:	13th November, 1856
Death:	5th October, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Judge, Politician

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