The best Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.

The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

I call Washington "the city of the perishable".

Let me give you a little bit of free advice. DC is all about realtionships.

Alex: "You can't do that. You can't make promises that you won't be able to keep!"
Tom: "We're in Washington, they're the only promises we're allowed to make."

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog!

Washington, D.C. is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn’t have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

You can't be an a-shole and a losing coach. In Kentucky, baby, winning cures all.

I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Kentucky - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.

Evolution is never gentle.

If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously.

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

I am sorry on behalf of most, if not close to all, of Australia at this point. I'm sorry about Raygun and that we broke dancing.