"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." ― Louis D. Brandeis Topic(s): Society More From Louis D. Brandeis "Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." "If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." "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." More In Society "I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy."― Oscar Wilde "What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."― Walter Lippmann "I don’t think we live in a particularly equal society."― Sienna Miller