The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

Quote by Louis D Brandeis

Topics: Apathy Quotes, Freedom Quotes

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well...

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well...

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said...

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said...

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

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

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one...

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one...

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They...

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They...

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law...

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law...

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be...

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually...

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually...

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly...

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly...

Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion

Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion

Time heals what reason cannot

Time heals what reason cannot

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which...

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which...

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind