Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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

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.

Low wages are not cheap wages.

The most important political office is that of private citizen.

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

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.

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

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.