Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

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.

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.

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.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

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

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

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.

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen