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The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
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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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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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
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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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Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants electric light the most efficient policeman.
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To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
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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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Men feared witches and burned women.
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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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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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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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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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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.
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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