Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
These Louis D. Brandeis quotes and sayings from our famous words of wisdom collection.Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment. - 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
The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favourable to the pursuit of happiness. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They 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
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
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
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country. - Louis D. Brandeis
There are no shortcuts in evolution. - Louis D. Brandeis
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. - Louis D. Brandeis
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