Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are 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 Dembitz Brandeis
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty, and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
No people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . .
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
When a man feels that he cannot leave his work, it is a sure sign of an impending collapse.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
No people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . .
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are 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 Dembitz 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 Dembitz Brandeis
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.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis