Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis

"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."

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"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

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"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent."

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"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."

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"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."

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"There are no shortcuts in evolution."

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