Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

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.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

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

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.

It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

Men feared witches and burned women.

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

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

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.

The most important office is that of private citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil