Saturday, November 8, 2008

Louis D. Brandeis



From: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/louis_d_brandeis.html

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
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

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

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.
Louis D. Brandeis

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

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis

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