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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Louis D. Brandeis

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Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
Judge
Lawyer
Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Reality
Realities
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Men feared witches and burned women.
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
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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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There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
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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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It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.
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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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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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At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.
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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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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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People fear witches, and burn women.
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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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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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