Most of the things worth ...

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

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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
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
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