Louis D. Brandeis Political Quotations

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . . They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty . . . that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be the fundamental principle of the American government.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.