Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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 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
Use
Rule
Others
Communication
Ascertained
Become
Air
Conceptions
Ideas
General
Noblest
Human
Law
Voluntary
Humans
Knowledge
Conception
Common
Truths
Free
Productions
More quotes by Louis D. Brandeis
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
Louis D. Brandeis
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
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.
Louis D. Brandeis
Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
Louis D. Brandeis
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.
Louis D. Brandeis
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Louis D. Brandeis
Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant
Louis D. Brandeis
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
Louis D. Brandeis
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
Louis D. Brandeis
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
Louis D. Brandeis
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Louis D. Brandeis
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
Louis D. Brandeis
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.
Louis D. Brandeis
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis
If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
Louis D. Brandeis
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
Louis D. Brandeis
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis
The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.
Louis D. Brandeis
