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

- Louis D. Brandeis

The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what…

- Louis D. Brandeis

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

- Louis D. Brandeis

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 …

- 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…

- Louis D. Brandeis

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

- 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

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

- Louis D. Brandeis

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturall…

- Louis D. Brandeis