“Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”

About Louis Dembitz Brandeis

Jurist • American

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer and an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents, he graduated from Harvard...