Louis D Brandeis Famous Quotes
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
"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."
"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example."
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Louis D Brandeis Quotations
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."
Albert Einstein
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Eustace Budgell
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
Jean Kerr
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.
Proverbs 478
"I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth I wonder."
Jeff Melvoin
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
Jean de la Bruyere
"No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
"Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment."
Thomas Jefferson
I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane.
Eldridge Cleaver
"The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else."
John Blake