Obsessed with the delusion that two and two make five, he fell at last a victim of the relentless rules of humble arithmetic. Remember, O Stranger! Arithmetic is the first of the sciences and the mother of safety.


In: Alpheus T. Mason - Brandeis: A Free Man's Life - Chapter Thirteen (p. 200), The Viking Press. 1956

Louis Brandeis Quotes

Obsessed with the delusion that two and two make five, he fell at last a victim of the relentless rules of humble arithmetic. Remember, O Stranger!...

Obsessed with the delusion that two and two make five, he fell at last a victim of the relentless rules of humble arithmetic. Remember, O Stranger!...

Obsessed with the delusion that two and two make five, he fell at last a victim of the relentless rules of humble arithmetic. Remember, O Stranger!...

Obsessed with the delusion that two and two make five, he fell at last a victim of the relentless rules of humble arithmetic. Remember, O Stranger!...