We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: democracy equality inequality USA wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Louis D. Brandeis Louis Dembitz Brandeis (; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.
More quotations from Louis D. Brandeis Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: values Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: argument Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There are no shortcuts in evolution. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: values Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: argument Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are no shortcuts in evolution. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “wealth” I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. —Bruce Grocott More about this quote Tags: work wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The sea hath fish for every man. —William Camden More about this quote Tags: wealth prosperity proverb Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. —J. Paul Getty More about this quote Tags: humor wealth earth inheritance property rights Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic. —Lewis H. Lapham More about this quote Tags: politics humor dandyism morality wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. —Charles Kuralt More about this quote Tags: love privilege family wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. —Bruce Grocott More about this quote Tags: work wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sea hath fish for every man. —William Camden More about this quote Tags: wealth prosperity proverb Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. —J. Paul Getty More about this quote Tags: humor wealth earth inheritance property rights Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic. —Lewis H. Lapham More about this quote Tags: politics humor dandyism morality wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. —Charles Kuralt More about this quote Tags: love privilege family wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email