128 Quotes by 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.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen

In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.