Maxioms by Louis D. Brandeis
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free
speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. read more
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression 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.
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to read more
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens read more
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.
