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

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. — Louis D. Brandeis

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition. — 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. — Louis D. Brandeis

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. — Louis D. Brandeis

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. — 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. — Louis D. Brandeis

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. — Louis D. Brandeis

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use. — Louis D. Brandeis

There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. — Louis D. Brandeis

The most important political office is that of private citizen. — Louis D. Brandeis

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen — Louis D. Brandeis

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen. — Louis D. Brandeis

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen. — Louis D. Brandeis

The power and the growth of power of our financial oligarchs comes from wielding the savings and quick capital of others. — Louis D. Brandeis

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. — Louis D. Brandeis

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part — Louis D. Brandeis

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power. — Louis D. Brandeis

The US States are our laboratories of democracy. — Louis D. Brandeis

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

We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. — Louis D. Brandeis

The most important thing we do is not doing. — Louis D. Brandeis

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen. — Louis D. Brandeis

Democracy is moral before it is political. — Louis D. Brandeis

No one can really pull you up very high–you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains. — Louis D. Brandeis