Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
Judge
Lawyer
Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Position
Command
Denies
Principles
Principle
Commands
Liberty
Deny
Liberties
Law
Rules
Exceptional
Lying
Foundation
Conduct
Government
Lies
Citizen
Subjects
Officials
Citizens
Civil
More quotes by Louis D. Brandeis
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
Louis D. Brandeis
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
Louis D. Brandeis
The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis
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.
Louis D. Brandeis
To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
Louis D. Brandeis
Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.
Louis D. Brandeis
People fear witches, and burn women.
Louis D. Brandeis
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
Louis D. Brandeis
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
Louis D. Brandeis
The most important thing we do is not doing.
Louis D. Brandeis
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Louis D. Brandeis
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
Louis D. Brandeis
The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
Louis D. Brandeis
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Louis D. Brandeis
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants electric light the most efficient policeman.
Louis D. Brandeis
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
Louis D. Brandeis
I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part
Louis D. Brandeis
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis
