I think all of our human ...

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

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Quotes from the same author

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.
 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
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
 Louis D. Brandeis
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
 Louis D. Brandeis
In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
 Louis D. Brandeis