Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

—Louis D. Brandeis

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About Louis D. Brandeis

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Louis Dembitz Brandeis ( BRAN-dice; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. Brandeis was a leading figure in the antitrust movement at the turn of the 20th century, particularly...

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

—Louis D. Brandeis

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

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

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

—Louis D. Brandeis

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

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Don't you find it odd that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

—Ethan Hawke in The Hottest State

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In the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead.

—Osho in Courage

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No one is born to courage. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.

—Sabrina Jeffries in A Dangerous Love

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What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

—Douglas Coupland

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