There are no shortcuts in evolution. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote 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 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 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
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
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
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