Louis D. Brandeis

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#neutrality #sin #than #times

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#greatest #insidious #liberty #meaning #men

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

#believe #believing #enough #law #miracles

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. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#courage #end #happiness #independence #liberty

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

#advanced #america #belief #believed #differentiation

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

#average #averages #case #day #good

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#hard #life #life is hard #much #only

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#apparently #delight #heaven #long #men

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#judgement #never #organisation #substitute

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. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#anarchy #become #becomes #breeds #contempt