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

Louis D. Brandeis

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American - Judge November 13, 1856 - October 3, 1941

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

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

Legal, Law, Desire

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech. Louis D. Brandeis

Tongue, Here, Prevailing

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

Life, Hard Things, Recognize

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

Wealth, Hands, Country

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. Louis D. Brandeis

Social, Efficient, Electric

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

Government, Law, Unto

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice. Louis D. Brandeis

Development, Through, Ideals

There are no shortcuts in evolution. - Louis D. Brandeis

There are no shortcuts in evolution. Louis D. Brandeis

Science, Shortcuts

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Louis D. Brandeis

History, Free Speech, Feared

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

Liberty, Dangers, Insidious

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Louis D. Brandeis

Experience, Guard, Our

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization. Louis D. Brandeis

Principle, Pillars, Entitled

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

History, Doing, Most

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. Louis D. Brandeis

Sin, Than, Times

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. Louis D. Brandeis

Politics, Important, Most

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Louis D. Brandeis

Anger, Argument, Behind

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

Differentiation, Advanced

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. Louis D. Brandeis

Minds, Reason, Would

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. Louis D. Brandeis

Opinions, Frank, Conflicting

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are. Louis D. Brandeis

Always, Some, Very

When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.' Louis D. Brandeis

Feel, Own, Superiority

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

Imagine, Zionism, Loyalties

A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his city; for being loyal to his family and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge. Louis D. Brandeis

College, Citizen, Profession

It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians. Louis D. Brandeis

Wealth, Which, Social

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. Louis D. Brandeis

Tone, Which, Himself

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

Independence, Secret, Means

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