The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
Louis D. BrandeisThe best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
Louis D. BrandeisThe goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.
Louis D. BrandeisNo system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.
Louis D. BrandeisThe Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.
Louis D. Brandeis