Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
Judge
Lawyer
Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Shall
State
Denies
Force
Resort
Lost
Resorts
States
Vital
Right
Price
Something
Deny
Time
Beyond

More quotes by Louis D. Brandeis

Image
What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
The most important thing we do is not doing.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
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
Image
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
Image
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
Men feared witches and burned women.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
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
Image
People fear witches, and burn women.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
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
Image
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
Louis D. Brandeis
Image
The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis