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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
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Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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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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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.
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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.
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