Louis Dembitz Brandeis, born November 13, 1856 in Louisville, Kentucky, October 5 1941 in Washington, DC, was a judge of the united state High court years, 1916-1939.
Brandeis, who was chosen to the Supreme Court by President Woodrow Wilson, among other things understood to have actually introduced the suggestion of a right to privacy (English: right to privacy) by a post in the Harvard Law Review in 1890. This right to personal privacy, which, according to Brandeis was the consequence of the U.S. Constitution and lawful practice, later on including type the basis of the operative component of the popular litigation Roe v. Wade in 1973.
He was likewise steeped in background to be recognized to he the case Muller v. Oregon in 1908 used a document, which would later on be called the "Brandeis Brief" consisting of statements of professional witnesses working in areas besides legislation to supply support for the event Brandeis represented in the proceedings. This produced the Brandeis version of exactly how the goals would certainly later be said prior to the Supreme Court.
Brandeis came to be the very first Jewish judge in the U.S. Supreme Court as well as was energetic in the Zionist motion.
Our collection contains 23 quotes who is written / told by Louis, under the main topics: History - Politics - Government.
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done"
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding"
"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action"
"If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you"
"If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold"
"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"
"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"
"Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement"
"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"
"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"
"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent"
"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"
"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"
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable"
"There are no shortcuts in evolution"
"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"
"The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities"
"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"
"Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders"
"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"
"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself"
"The most important political office is that of the private citizen"
"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence"
