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Louis D Brandeis Inspirational Quotes (52)

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... fear breeds repression that repression breeds hate that hate menaces stable government that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.
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I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
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There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
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The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.
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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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Men feared witches and burned women.
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The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.
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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
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There are no shortcuts in evolution.
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In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
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The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
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People fear witches, and burn women.
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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.
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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
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What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
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Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.
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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
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