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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
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
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
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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