We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.
Louis D. BrandeisCrime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
Louis D. BrandeisI 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. BrandeisThe world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
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