Louis D. Brandeis Quotes - Page 3

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

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

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

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

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.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

Men feared witches and burned women.

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

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

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.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

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.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

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

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

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant