Louis D. Brandeis Quotes - Page 4

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

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

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.

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

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

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.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

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.

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

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

People fear witches, and burn women.

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

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

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.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.