“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.” CountryWisdomHandsGovernmentPoliticalWealthJusticePowerDemocracyEconomicWise WordsCapitalismEconomicsEntrepreneurMiddle ClassDemocracies HaveSocial ClassEconomic InequalityEconomic JusticeVoting And DemocracyMaterial WealthSocial InjusticeSocial DemocracyWealth InequalityEconomic EqualitySocial Inequality Author: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.” PeopleIfsMenWholeGovernmentLawPoliticalPoliticsChangeTeachExampleEvery ManAnarchyContemptInvitesLiberty And JusticeLaw And JusticeLaw CourtsLaws And GovernmentBest LawyerBelligerenceConflicting Opinions Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.” ImportantPoliticalHousePoliticsDemocracyCitizensOfficeVoting Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.” MenShouldMeanEndsStatesGovernmentPoliticalSecretLibertyPrinciplesDemocracyDutyIndependenceFundamentalsCourtFinalsDiscussionFacultyAmendmentsFree SpeechFreedom Of SpeechFirst AmendmentAmerican GovernmentFundamental PrinciplesLiberty And JusticeLiberty Of Speech Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” IfsTryingMayCountryStatesPoliticalSocialNovelRiskEconomicCitizensExperimentsCourageousIncidentsLaboratory Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.” CharacterPoliticalOrderLibertyRevolutionCostIndependenceCowardFree SpeechFreedom Of SpeechPolitical ChangeCharacter EducationLiberty Of Speech Author:Louis D. Brandeis
